Maria Montessori Quotes About Montessori
-
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
→ -
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.
→ -
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
→ -
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
→ -
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
→ -
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
→ -
Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
→ -
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
→ -
If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
→ -
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.
→ -
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
→ -
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
→ -
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
→ -
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
→ -
Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.
→ -
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
→ -
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
→ -
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
→ -
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
→ -
No one can be free unless he is independent.
→ -
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
→ -
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
→ -
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
→ -
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
→ -
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
→ -
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
→ -
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 . . .
→
Related Authors
-
Paulo Freire Educator -
Howard Gardner Psychologist -
John Dewey Philosopher -
Baron de Montesquieu Author -
Jean Piaget Psychologist -
Michel de Montaigne Writer -
Janusz Korczak Educator -
Larry Page Business magnate -
John Locke Philosopher -
John Amos Comenius Writer -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher -
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Educator -
Sergey Brin Computer Scientist -
Rudolf Steiner Philosopher -
Lev S. Vygotsky Psychologist -
Alexander Sutherland Neill Educator -
William James Philosopher -
Friedrich Frobel Pedagogue -
Charles Sanders Peirce Philosopher -
Ayn Rand Novelist