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 Teach by teaching, not by correcting Maria Montessori correcting teach teaching Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. Maria Montessori explanation taught character To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge. Maria Montessori teach details confusion The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child. Maria Montessori humanity lying children Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. Maria Montessori form trying children What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love. Maria Montessori independence miracle children A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature. Maria Montessori powerful secret children The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. Maria Montessori essentials development children It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities. Maria Montessori genius giving children Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. Maria Montessori individuality discipline silence The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything. Maria Montessori creation achieve children ...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. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. 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 listening teacher children Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. Maria Montessori opportunity giving children Within the child lies the fate of the future. Maria Montessori future lying children The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. Maria Montessori enigma knows children It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment. Maria Montessori color exercise children Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements. Maria Montessori imperfect achievement causes Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves. Maria Montessori educational tasks children There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest. Maria Montessori real sight book A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars. Maria Montessori inspiration book children
