Children Quote by Maria Montessori

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather…

— Maria Montessori

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

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

“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be…

— Paula Polk Lillard

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

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

It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm…

— Connie Smith

“Montessori is about a kid with a stick, digging a hole in the mud—hands dirty, engaged, fascinated, uninterrupted.”

— Trevor Eissler

“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 child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world,…

— Maria Montessori

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a…

— Paula Polk Lillard