70 Montessori Quotes
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Famous Montessori Quotes
The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity. — Maria Montessori
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom. — Rudolf Steiner
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato
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
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori
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. — Maria Montessori
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity, and he will be free. We see no limit to what should be offered to the child, for his will be an immense field of chosen activity. — Maria Montessori
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. — Sayings
Education, like neurosis, begins at home. — Milton Sapirstein
Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! — Frank Van Dun
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. — Maria Montessori
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. — Karl Marx
Short Montessori Quotes
- The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori
- Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori
- The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. — Maria Montessori
- Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori
- Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. — Maria Montessori
- The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind. — Maria Montessori
- Of all things love is the most potent. — Maria Montessori
- Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. — Maria Montessori
- Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. — Maria Montessori
- The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. — Maria Montessori
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More Montessori Quotes
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
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
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori
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
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
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori
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
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. — Maria Montessori
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. — 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
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori
Within the child lies the fate of the future. — Maria Montessori
Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. — Maria Montessori
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was. — Maria Montessori
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done — Maria Montessori
The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence. — Maria Montessori
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori
No one can be free unless he is independent. — Maria Montessori
The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself. — Maria Montessori
The child will reveal himself through work. — Maria Montessori
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. — Maria Montessori
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work. — Maria Montessori
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
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. — Maria Montessori
Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes. — Maria Montessori
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. — Jack White
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
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
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
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