Quotes of Maria Montessori - somelinesforyou

“ Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Play is the work of the child. ”

- Maria Montessori

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

- Maria Montessori

“ When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden. ”

- Maria Montessori

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

- Maria Montessori

“ The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ The child should live in an environment of beauty. ”

- Maria Montessori

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

- Maria Montessori

“ When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum is capable of giving. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all the life to be found around them, in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum is capable of giving. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ 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

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

- Maria Montessori

“ There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ 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

“ An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ”

- Maria Montessori
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