By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
