Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 7

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• Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independence, Littles

  "The Montessori Reader".

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• 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

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• There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Doe, Speech

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• Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Law

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• When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Needs, Probing

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• 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, Special

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• We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Roles, Care

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

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• Education must start from birth.

  Maria Montessori

  Birth

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• Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Doe

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• The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

  Maria Montessori

  Ideas, Care, Curriculum

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• How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? How can we expect democracy when we have reared slaves? Real freedom begins at the beginning of life, not at the adult stage. These people who have been diminished in their powers, made short-sighted, devitalized by mental fatigue, whose bodies have become distorted, whose wills have been broken by elders who say: "your will must disappear and mine prevail!"-how can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom?

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Real, School

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• Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Independence, Dignity, Human Dignity

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• 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

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• If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Desire, Development

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 23, 1936.

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• The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Giving

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.15, Montessori Helper

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• 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

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• 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

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• Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Punishment

  "The Discovery of the Child" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 1, 1948.

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• in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

  Maria Montessori

  Nature, Transformed, Destroyed

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• The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

  Maria Montessori

  Discouragement, Conviction, Source

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• 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.

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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.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Voice, Silence

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• 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

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• Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Design, Erase

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

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