Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — 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 teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by… — 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
