Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher. Maria Montessori teaching teacher children There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease. Maria Montessori three teacher children This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They can thus carryout an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations. Maria Montessori writing children moving No one can be free unless he is independent... Maria Montessori independence independent reality The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man. Maria Montessori mother baby children The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. Maria Montessori perfection perfect art We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity. Maria Montessori knowing believe children Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him. Maria Montessori independent character men But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation. Maria Montessori creation soul children One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time. Maria Montessori psychics men children At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. Maria Montessori names children years At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality. Maria Montessori mother baby children 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 feelings children ideas To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better. Maria Montessori vision movement children The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. Maria Montessori greatness change personality 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 father children The child becomes a person through work. Maria Montessori persons children If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder! Maria Montessori challenges dog two A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. Maria Montessori intellectual nihilism world We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. Maria Montessori medicine philosophy mean
