For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. Maria Montessori evil lying children He who is served is limited in his independence. Maria Montessori independence Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. Maria Montessori missions environment adults Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence. Maria Montessori essentials intellectual two No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child. Maria Montessori rights men children One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. Maria Montessori spiritual teacher children The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy. Maria Montessori men lying children To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself. Maria Montessori liberty giving children 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 . . . Maria Montessori teacher book children Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity. Maria Montessori humanity men culture In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. Maria Montessori disaster nature loss Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises. Maria Montessori deceit deception soul The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it. Maria Montessori cutting islands people Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society. Maria Montessori spiritual men lying In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit. Maria Montessori technique teacher children It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child. Maria Montessori encounters parent children A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. Maria Montessori tasks teacher thinking The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. Maria Montessori tasks teacher firsts The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth. Maria Montessori growth mean children Nothing is created or destroyed in nature. Maria Montessori destroyed
