All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. — 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
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how… — 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 consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence,… — 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 greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — 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
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the… — 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
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has… — 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
There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm… — 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
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
