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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“There does exist, however, an external prize for man; when, for example, the orator sees the faces of his listeners change with… — 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
