Maria Montessori Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

• The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Essentials

  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.58, Rowman & Littlefield

• Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Discovery, Times Have Changed

• 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”

• By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Character, School

• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

• The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Personality, Energy

• The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Greatness, Personality

• The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Firsts

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

• Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Sacrifice, Personality

• It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Personality

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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