Maria Montessori Quotes

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
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
What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.
Maria Montessori
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria Montessori
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
Maria Montessori
The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.
Maria Montessori
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
Maria Montessori
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Maria Montessori
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