Bases Quote 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

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

— Maria Montessori

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

— Maria Montessori

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

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

— Maria Montessori

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

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

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

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

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

— Maria Montessori

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

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

— Maria Montessori