Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact… — 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
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and… — 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
When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a… — 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… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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
