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.

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  Leadership, Moving, Watches

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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.

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  Running, Morning, Children

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

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  Children, School, Doe

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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.

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  Children, Community, Atmosphere

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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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• 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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  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 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.

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  Children, Growing Up, Self

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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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  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.

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  Generosity, Unity, Together

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

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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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• 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."

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

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  Children, Humanity, Craving

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• Play is the work of the child.

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  Children, Play, Children Playing

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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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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

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  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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• Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

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  Joy, Growth, Evidence

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• The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.

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  Teacher, Environment, Divided

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.181, Aakar Books

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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 child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

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  Children, Promise, Mankind

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• The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

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  Children, Teaching, Imagination

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

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  Children, Light, Desire

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.108, Montessori Helper

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• Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Learning

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