Maria Montessori Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Joy, Growth, Evidence

• Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

  Maria Montessori

  Understanding, Intellectual, Growth

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

• Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

  Maria Montessori

  Growth, Size, Transformation

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.70, Ravenio Books

• Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

  Maria Montessori

  Reality, Ideas, Intellectual

• If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Children, Personality

  Maria Montessori (1989). “Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori”

• Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Psychics, Growth

• The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Growth

• We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Emotional, Ideas

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

• The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

• The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

  Maria Montessori

  Growth, Development, Levels

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