Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — 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
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — 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
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
“Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.” — Tim Seldin 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
I was a strong supporter of Montessori when my kids were very little. I homeschooled for a year, and then we did… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children… — Connie Smith Copy Share Image
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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 do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
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
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
“You can’t understand Google… unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.”22 This teaching environment is tailored to a… — Laszlo Bock Copy Share Image
“My experiences as a Montessori teacher have led me to realize that our goal as educators is not to impart facts to… — Elizabeth White Copy Share Image
“Dr. Montessori believes in liberty for the pupil because she thinks of life "as a superb goddess, ever advancing to new conquests."… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I… — Jack White Copy Share Image
...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special… — 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
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to… — 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
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