Maria Montessori Quotes - Page 2

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• We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Generations, Labor

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• 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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• 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.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Buttons

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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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• 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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• To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Views, Preparation

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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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• The development of the mind comes through movement

  Maria Montessori

  Mind, Movement, Development

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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.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Light, Desire

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

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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Shoes

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

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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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• 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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• Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

  Maria Montessori

  Character, Taught, Explanation

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• Teach by teaching, not by correcting

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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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.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Teaching, Imagination

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

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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. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Listening

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• To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

  Maria Montessori

  Confusion, Details, Teach

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

  Maria Montessori

  Nature, Children, Contact

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• The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mind, Able

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

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Humanity

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• We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Interest, Loses

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• At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

  Maria Montessori

  Perseverance, Children, Exercise

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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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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