The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child. Maria Montessori More Quotes by Maria Montessori More Quotes From Maria Montessori To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher. Maria Montessori educational appreciation teacher Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is Maria Montessori excellence order children The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. Maria Montessori impression self children The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself. Maria Montessori teacher giving children The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens. Maria Montessori errors teacher children When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards. Maria Montessori real children ideas I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method. Maria Montessori given taken children This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light. Maria Montessori independent light children Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence. Maria Montessori voice silence children The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society. Maria Montessori mankind race class Education must start from birth. Maria Montessori birth We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. Maria Montessori religious sweet children Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment. Maria Montessori listening teacher giving The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality. Maria Montessori essentials personality children The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life. Maria Montessori curriculum care ideas Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act. Maria Montessori movement should children The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer. Maria Montessori ordinary teacher children The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit. Maria Montessori real teacher character All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force. Maria Montessori progress victory nihilism Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning. Maria Montessori teacher children school
