Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things. Maria Montessori unitychildrenideas If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. Maria Montessori parentingmenchildren The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. Maria Montessori environmentdividedteacher The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work. Maria Montessori teacherchildrenschool Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man. Maria Montessori spiritualmotherchildren The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual. Maria Montessori intellectualspiritualteacher The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. Maria Montessori wallspiritualchildren It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. Maria Montessori pathanimalmen We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. Maria Montessori imaginationbeautyscience A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind. Maria Montessori twochildrenyears There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything. Maria Montessori learningteacherchildren He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth. Maria Montessori psychologywishmean It is almost possible to say that there is a mathematical relationship between the beauty of his surroundings and the activity of the child; he will make discoveries rather more voluntarily in a gracious setting than in an ugly one. Maria Montessori uglydiscoverychildren The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed. Maria Montessori lyingchildrenmoving What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself. Maria Montessori lovelifemean Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction. Maria Montessori demandinstructionchildren When we want to infuse new ideas, Maria Montessori childrenpeopleideas Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life. Maria Montessori independentintelligentyears Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life. Maria Montessori social-lifesocialtoday ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience. Maria Montessori independentlawmean
