Psychology Quotes by Maria Montessori

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

— Maria Montessori

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

— Maria Montessori

The development of the mind comes through movement

— Maria Montessori

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.

— Maria Montessori

What the hand does the mind remembers.

— Maria Montessori

The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

— Maria Montessori

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

— Maria Montessori

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

— Maria Montessori

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an…

— Maria Montessori

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

— Maria Montessori

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

— Maria Montessori

We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well…

— Maria Montessori

The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and…

— Maria Montessori

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make…

— Maria Montessori

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be…

— Maria Montessori

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a…

— Maria Montessori

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready…

— Maria Montessori

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of…

— Maria Montessori

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study.…

— Maria Montessori

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the…

— Maria Montessori

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It…

— Maria Montessori

A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through…

— Maria Montessori

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The…

— Maria Montessori

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type,…

— Maria Montessori