The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — 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
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. — 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
