Time Quotes by Maria Montessori

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

— Maria Montessori

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

— Maria Montessori

Little children, from the moment they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

— Maria Montessori

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

— Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to…

— Maria Montessori

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities…

— Maria Montessori

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant…

— Maria Montessori

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to…

— Maria Montessori

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so…

— Maria Montessori

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing…

— Maria Montessori

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value…

— Maria Montessori

One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life…

— Maria Montessori

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a…

— Maria Montessori

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by…

— Maria Montessori

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and…

— Maria Montessori

“We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to…

— Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to…

— Maria Montessori

Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and…

— Maria Montessori

Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations…

— Maria Montessori

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development…

— Maria Montessori

The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to…

— Maria Montessori