Maria Montessori Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Goal, Childhood

• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Lying, Desire

• Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Light, Desire

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.108, Montessori Helper

• We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Support

• If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Desire, Development

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 23, 1936.

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