Maria Montessori Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• 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.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Childhood, Important

• The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Goal, Childhood

• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Religious, Sweet, Children

• Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Years, Childhood

• This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

  Maria Montessori

  Childhood, Firsts, Educator

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, (Ch. 8), 1948.

• How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Often Is, Childhood

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