Child Quote by Maria Montessori

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the…

— Maria Montessori

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...

— Katharine Graham

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's…

— Paula Polk Lillard

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

— Maria Montessori

“...Montessori decided her teachers must each write their own textbook based on their own understanding of Montessori education... her own personal guidebook to refer…

— Paula Polk Lillard

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come…

— Maria Montessori

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children…

— Lynne Cheney