Activity Quote by Maria Montessori

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their…

— Daniel Greenberg

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use…

— John W Holt Jr

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

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

— George Bernard Shaw

“One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience…

— Catherine the Great

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

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to…

— Jean Piaget

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

— Maria Montessori

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

— Ignacio Estrada

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

...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human…

— Maria Montessori

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