Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides… — 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
