Children Quote by Maria Montessori

“A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.” quote by Maria Montessori — Download Open image

“A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.”

Maria Montessori

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Children Energy Firsts Force Force and energy Initials Periods Reason Sensitive Teaching

More by Maria Montessori

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

Image

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Maria Montessori

Image

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Maria Montessori

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Maria Montessori

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