Montessori Quotes

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  We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

  Maria Montessori

  Generosity, Unity, Together

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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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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• The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

  Maria Montessori

  World, Way, Explorers

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• The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Land, Roots

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Promise, Mankind

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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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• The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.

  Maria Montessori

  Hands, Mind, Humans

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• The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Approval, Steps

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• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Religious, Sweet, Children

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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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• 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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• Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Trying, Form

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

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• 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.

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• The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parent, Guardian

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.222, Orient Blackswan

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• To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

  Maria Montessori

  Leaving, Tasks, Aids

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• Of all things love is the most potent.

  Maria Montessori

  Love Is, Parental, All Things

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• Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

  Maria Montessori

  Imagination, Doe, Use

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• The child will reveal himself through work.

  Maria Montessori

  Children

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• A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Men, Done

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Lying, Desire

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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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• 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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• Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• Play is the work of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Play, Children Playing

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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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