Maria Montessori Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Giving, Genius

• What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Love, Life, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Intelligent

• The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Giving

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.15, Montessori Helper

• We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Giving

• We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

  Maria Montessori

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

• Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Giving, Listening

• Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Opportunity, Giving

• The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Giving, Roles

• It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Law

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

• To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Giving, Liberty

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

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