Children Quote by Maria Montessori

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which…

— John Dewey

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

— Erich Fromm

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

— Maria Montessori

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

— Maria Montessori

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition that every…

— Helen Keller

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions…

— Alice Duer Miller

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when…

— Helen Keller

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion…

— Ellen Key

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson