We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her… — Maria Montessori 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
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by… — Maria Montessori 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
Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — 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 they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
