Maria Montessori Quotes (10 quotations)
1. Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori
2. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori
3. If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. - Maria Montessori
4. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori
5. 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
6. The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori
7. The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori
8. The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori
9. The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori
10. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori
2. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori
3. If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. - Maria Montessori
4. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori
5. 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
6. The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori
7. The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori
8. The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori
9. The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori
10. We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori
