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Maria Montessori Quotes
Italian
-
Educator
August 31
, 1870 -
May 6
, 1952
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Childhood
,
Society
,
Key
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Maria Montessori
Soul
,
Loved
,
Value
,
Joy
,
Feeling
,
Own
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
Child
,
World
,
You
,
Free
,
Potential
,
Will
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
Maria Montessori
Science
,
Passion
,
Moment
,
Teacher
,
Child
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Maria Montessori
Personality
,
Thoughts
,
Words
,
People
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
Maria Montessori
Love
,
Teacher
,
Child
,
Mission
,
Duty
,
Now
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Maria Montessori
Success
,
Children
,
Teacher
,
Say
,
Now
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Teacher
,
Process
,
Human
,
Does
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
Maria Montessori
Man
,
Child
,
Empty
,
Whatever
,
Us
,
Up
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori
Happiness
,
Child
,
Test
,
Procedure
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Power
,
Saying
,
Create
,
Giving
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Child
,
Succeed
,
Help
,
Never
,
He
,
Task
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Beauty
,
Happiness
,
Health
,
Youth
The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Enjoy
,
World
,
Purpose
,
Better
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
Good
,
Child
,
Evil
,
Good And Evil
,
First
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Future
,
Knowledge
,
Man
,
Lines
It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.
Maria Montessori
Me
,
Child
,
True
,
Taken
,
Method
,
Given
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Work
,
Education
,
Man
,
Himself
The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Nature
,
Child
,
Care
,
Development
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
Maria Montessori
Happy
,
Child
,
Who
,
Immensely
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Child
,
Problem
,
You
,
Entire
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
Maria Montessori
Spiritual
,
Person
,
Master
,
Just
,
Move
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Maria Montessori
Education
,
Personality
,
Age
,
Man
,
School
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Man
,
School
,
Child
,
Action
,
Study
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
Maria Montessori
Life
,
Value
,
Child
,
Treat
,
Feel
,
Better
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Maria Montessori
Children
,
Men
,
Brotherhood
,
Garden
,
Over
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