The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent… — 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
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in… — 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
If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they… — 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
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — 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
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of 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
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
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
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. — Maria Montessori Copy Share
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited… — Maria Montessori Copy Share
