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Maria Montessori Quotes
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 Quotes
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori Quotes
Free the childs potential, and you will transform him into the world. - Maria Montessori Quotes
I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger. - Maria Montessori Quotes
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. - Maria Montessori Quotes
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 mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? - Maria Montessori Quotes
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. - Maria Montessori Quotes
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori Quotes
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Maria Montessori Quotes
The childs 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 Quotes
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori Quotes
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 Quotes
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! - Maria Montessori Quotes
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori Quotes
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 Quotes
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. - Maria Montessori Quotes
We cannot create observers by saying observe, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. - Maria Montessori Quotes
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. - Maria Montessori Quotes
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Montessori Quotes
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori Quotes
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