"The child has a different relation to his……" — Maria Montessori
"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear."
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Maria Montessori
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256 Quotes by Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori has 256 quotes on this site.
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To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
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Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
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Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been…
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Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the…
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Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human…
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Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective…
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Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but…
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The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker…
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
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Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being,…
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening…
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No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for…
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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from…
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to…
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