Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. Maria Montessori personality children firsts These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’. Maria Montessori helping children needs As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate. Maria Montessori loses interest children The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'. Maria Montessori independent mean children There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature. Maria Montessori appreciate order children Children become like the things they love. Maria Montessori children Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. Maria Montessori growth understanding intellectual The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. Maria Montessori explorers way world Play is the work of the child. Maria Montessori children-playing play children We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are. Maria Montessori generations labor children Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Maria Montessori parenting family children Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow. Maria Montessori dry-up animal children A child's work is to create the person she/he will become. Maria Montessori persons children He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. Maria Montessori play men hands The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. Maria Montessori independent adults children At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline. Maria Montessori perseverance exercise children The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. Maria Montessori shapes use children The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. Maria Montessori imagination teaching children Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities. Maria Montessori release path education The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear. Maria Montessori eye soul children
