48 Maria Montessori Quotes for You to Enjoy

Maria Montessori

Italian Educator

Born: Aug 31, 1870

Died: May 6, 1952

Child Education Life Man Natural Work

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Maria Montessori

Never He Feels Child Task Which Succeed Help

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. Maria Montessori

Soul Joy Value Feeling Own Enormous Others Factors Human Being Loved Capable Production Useful Human Soul Appreciated

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation. Maria Montessori

Man Age Feeling Independent Finds Oneself Greatest Revelation Surprising Being Notice Even Satisfaction Sufficient Earliest

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos. Maria Montessori

Life World Obey Better Better World Enjoy Harmony Hidden Evolve Cosmos Only Purpose Command Order Which Created Creates Ever Among

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori

Happiness Correctness Test Educational Child Procedure

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was. Maria Montessori

Man Owes Whatever Once He Him Knows Empty Builder Been Existing Up Child Being Formed Us Who Filled

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. Maria Montessori

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. Maria Montessori

Teacher Travel Science Natural Passion Single Reading Guided Insect Pupils Introduce Varied Lead Thus Most Limit Geography Go Been Subjects Child Any Short Stories Natural Science Teach Use Moment Her Started

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded. Maria Montessori

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. Maria Montessori

Happiness Life Health Youth Natural Long Beauty Natural Beauty Related Worship Long Life Self-Control Renewed Personal Bringing

If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic. Maria Montessori

Fault Logical Ways Logic Almighty Limitations Human

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

Education Saying Giving Power We Cannot Through Observation Observe Observers Senses Cannot Them Procured Create Means

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. Maria Montessori

Good Good And Evil Evil First Must Idea Between Child Difference Acquire

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. Maria Montessori

Confidence Soul Dignity Ways Religious Oneself Noble Almost Knowing Make How Mankind Useful Help Many Fills Consciousness

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. Maria Montessori

Education Wisdom Best Nature World Every Aid Ought Recognize Direct Perfect Never He Part Because Fitted Transform Which Us Each Utilize Each One Her Things Adapted

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. Maria Montessori

Life Education You Protection Will Course Accompany Realize Whole Necessary

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education. Maria Montessori

Education You Problem Controlling Solved Entire Attention Child

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. Maria Montessori

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... 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

Me Invented Given Studied Taken True Method Child Expressed

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. Maria Montessori

Great Never Noble Ideas Always Been Existed Sentiments Transmitted Wars

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