Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 2

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• The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Essentials, Development

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• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Miracle, Independence

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• These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Needs, Helping

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• ...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. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Listening

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• Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Path, Release

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• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

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• 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

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• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Learning

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• Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

  Maria Montessori

  Understanding, Intellectual, Growth

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

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• Children become like the things they love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Absorbent Mind”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Interest, Loses

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• We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Generations, Labor

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• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Joy, Growth, Evidence

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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Shoes

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

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• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, Innocence

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Hands, Play

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• The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Promise, Mankind

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• Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
  par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Excellence

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

  Maria Montessori

  Firsts, Intellect, Senses

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• To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Views, Preparation

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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• The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educator, Should

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part II, (p. 121), 1949.

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• The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Adults

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Helping, Veneration

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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