Montessori Quotes - Page 3

• Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

  Maria Montessori

  Discipline, Silence, Individuality

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.71, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Men, People

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• When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Needs, Probing

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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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• Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Design, Erase

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

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• It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Men, He Man

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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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• What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Love, Life, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

  Maria Montessori

  Self, Essence, Independence

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• The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

  Maria Montessori

  Teaching, Men, Language

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• If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Order, Ideas

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Father

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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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• The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Book

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.78, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 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, Special

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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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• If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Feelings

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

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• 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 teaches them anything.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Learning

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• 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

  Children, Educational, Training

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• Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independence, Littles

  "The Montessori Reader".

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• Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

  Maria Montessori

  Mind, Awakening, Firsts

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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.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Imagination, Force

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

  Maria Montessori

  Peace, War, Educational

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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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• 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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