Maria Montessori Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• 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

• At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

  Maria Montessori

  Perseverance, Children, Exercise

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Silence, Individuality

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Joy, Grace

• The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Profound, Discipline

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

• Discipline must come through liberty.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Liberty, Mute

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.86, Courier Corporation

• Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Intellectual, Found

  Maria Montessori, F. Simmonds (trans.) (2008). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.87, Lulu.com

• If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Ideas

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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