Maria Montessori Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Imagination, Force

• Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

  Maria Montessori

  Imagination, Doe, Use

• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Imagination

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

  Maria Montessori

  Beauty, Science, Imagination

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

• Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, School

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