The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child. Maria Montessori study spring children Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence. Maria Montessori independence littles children The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself. Maria Montessori mold adults children Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas. Maria Montessori intellectual reality ideas Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. Maria Montessori doe education children There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers. Maria Montessori psychics important men Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made. Maria Montessori childhood men years When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea. Maria Montessori educational talking thinking In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child. Maria Montessori vivid men children A child needs freedom within limits. Maria Montessori limits children needs Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities. Maria Montessori discipline grace joy The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something Maria Montessori discouragement conviction source A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. Maria Montessori development character children If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . . Maria Montessori order children ideas The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. Maria Montessori greatness personality education Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free. Maria Montessori dignity consciousness children Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. Maria Montessori light desire children We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction Maria Montessori roles care children It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has. Maria Montessori errors feelings friendly It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it. Maria Montessori first-love teacher children
