“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
“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 (1870-1952)
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child”
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
“Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.”
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.”
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"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."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"Joy is the evidence of inner growth."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
"Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities."
― Maria Montessori (1870-1952)