Maria Montessori Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Maria Montessori on Wise Famous Quotes.
Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator.
that is the first duty of the educator.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.