17 Quotations by Maria Montessori
- 1. An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con ...

- 2. Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h ...

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

- 4. If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the ...

- 5. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno ...

- 6. If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma ...

- 7. If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to ...

- 8. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

- 9. The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years ...

- 10. The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff ...

- 11. The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, The children are now working as ...

- 12. The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmat ...

- 13. The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev ...

- 14. The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...

- 15. There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

- 16. There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skillful that he obtains identical results in all ...

- 17. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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