Child Montessori Quotes
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Child Montessori Quotes & Sayings
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Play is the work of the child.
— Maria Montessori
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
— Maria Montessori
The child is an enigma ... He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
— Maria Montessori
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
— Maria Montessori
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
— Maria Montessori
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
— Maria Montessori
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
— Maria Montessori
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered ... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
— Maria Montessori
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
— Maria Montessori
The child's parents are not his makers but his guardians.
— Maria Montessori
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
— Maria Montessori
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
— Maria Montessori
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
— Maria Montessori
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
— Maria Montessori
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
— Maria Montessori
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
— Maria Montessori
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
— Maria Montessori
you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.
— Maria Montessori
A child needs freedom within limits.
— Maria Montessori
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
— Maria Montessori
The child endures all things.
— Maria Montessori
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.
— Maria Montessori
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
— Maria Montessori
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
— Maria Montessori
If salvation and help are to come, it is through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.
— Maria Montessori
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
— Maria Montessori
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
— Maria Montessori
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
— Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
— 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
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
— Maria Montessori
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
— Maria Montessori
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
— Maria Montessori
To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
— Maria Montessori
The child will reveal himself through work.
— Maria Montessori
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child's whole personality.
— Maria Montessori
From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.
— Maria Montessori
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
— Maria Montessori
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
— Maria Montessori
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
— Maria Montessori
No adult can bear a child's burden or grow up in his stead.
— Maria Montessori
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
— Maria Montessori
The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world
— Maria Montessori
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
— Maria Montessori
The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
— Maria Montessori
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
— Maria Montessori
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
— Maria Montessori
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.
— Maria Montessori
The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.
— Maria Montessori
The child becomes a person through work.
— Maria Montessori
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
— Maria Montessori
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.
— Maria Montessori
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
— Maria Montessori
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
— Maria Montessori
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
— Maria Montessori
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
— Maria Montessori
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
— Maria Montessori
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
— Maria Montessori
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
— Maria Montessori
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
— Maria Montessori
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
— Maria Montessori
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
— Maria Montessori
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
— Maria Montessori
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
— Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
— Maria Montessori
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
— Maria Montessori
The child should live in an environment of beauty.
— Maria Montessori
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
— Maria Montessori
The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
— Maria Montessori
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
— Maria Montessori
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
— Maria Montessori
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
— Maria Montessori
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
— Maria Montessori
The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
— Maria Montessori