Maria Montessori Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Imagination

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

• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

• The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Men, Language

• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

• The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Development

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

• A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Energy

• We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Appreciation, Educational

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.115, Courier Corporation

• The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

• Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Teaching, Goal

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

• The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Suffering

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

• The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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