Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth,… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation… — 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
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
