Maria Montessori Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• 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

• Discipline must come through liberty.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Liberty, Mute

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

• 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

• No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Independence

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.118, Rowman & Littlefield

• An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educational, Training

• Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Baby, Children, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.62, Montessori Helper

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