Maria Montessori Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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 first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Adults

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

• The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educator, Should

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part II, (p. 121), 1949.

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Goal, Childhood

• Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping, Veneration

• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

  Maria Montessori

  Running, Morning, Children

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

• The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, School, Doe

• 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.

• Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Humanity, Craving

• The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Giving

• 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

• Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Law

• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Miracle, Independence

• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Shoes

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Growing Up, Self

• Play is the work of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Play, Children Playing

• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Community, Atmosphere

• As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Interest, Loses

• It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, He Man

• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Learning

• The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Naughty, Discipline

• To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment, Montessori

• Within the child lies the fate of the future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Future

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