The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment. Maria Montessori psychics independent growth We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life. Maria Montessori fate keys children The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. Maria Montessori independent mean children The child will reveal himself through work. Maria Montessori montessori children The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality. Maria Montessori vitality expression children At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing. Maria Montessori effort children years The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil. Maria Montessori differences children ideas Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil. Maria Montessori independence independent order An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development Maria Montessori children hands firsts in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed. Maria Montessori transformed destroyed nature We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind. Maria Montessori emotional children ideas The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. Maria Montessori punishment effort children We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind. Maria Montessori waiting teacher men Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation. Maria Montessori size transformation growth All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become. Maria Montessori fruit adults children The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind. Maria Montessori organs mind hands There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it. Maria Montessori affection substitutes work The child should live in an environment of beauty. Maria Montessori environment should children The children are now working as if I did not exist. Maria Montessori education teacher children Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence. Maria Montessori independent law children
