Maria Montessori Quotes

Italian - Educator August 31, 1870 - May 6, 1952

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. - Maria Montessori

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

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

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

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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