Maria Montessori Quotes

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Goal, Childhood

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  Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

  Maria Montessori

  Leadership, Moving, Watches

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  The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, School, Doe

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• Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

  Maria Montessori

  Running, Morning, Children

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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, Montessori

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• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Community, Atmosphere

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  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.

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  Children, Childhood, Important

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• What the hand does the mind remembers.

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  Hands, Mind, Doe

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• The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.

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  Strong, Children, Giving

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

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Growing Up, Self

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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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• Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

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  Children, Imagination, Force

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• Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

  Maria Montessori

  Choices, Process, Free Choice

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• This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Light

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• 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.

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  Joy, Soul, Feelings

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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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• Play is the work of the child.

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  Children, Play, Children Playing

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• It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, May

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

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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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• If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

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  Children, Independent, Buttons

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• The development of the mind comes through movement

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  Mind, Movement, Development

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

  Maria Montessori

  World, Way, Explorers

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