Montessori Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment

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• The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, School

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• The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Environment, Rich

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• To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Likes

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• We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

  Maria Montessori

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

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• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

  Maria Montessori

  Beauty, Science, Imagination

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

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• 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.

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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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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Differences

  "The Montessori Reader".

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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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• No one can be free unless he is independent.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Practical Life

  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.118, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Hands, Instruments

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• The child who concentrates is immensely happy

  Maria Montessori

  Children

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• Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Adults, Conflict

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 2, 1936.

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• If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

  Maria Montessori

  Men, Intelligence, Use

  The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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

  Maria Montessori

  Change, Greatness, Personality

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Evil

  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.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

  Maria Montessori

  Use, Lag, Development

  The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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• It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, First Love

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Men, Waiting

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

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• Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

  Maria Montessori

  Environmental, Development, Humans

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• Within the child lies the fate of the future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Future

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• The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Humanity

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• Discipline must come through liberty.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Liberty, Mute

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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