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Maria Montessori
The teacher must...
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must...
The only language...
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them...
The task of...
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with...
The observation of...
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are...
We teachers can...
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
If an educational...
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of...
The first idea...
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between...
If help and...
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of...
Discipline must come...
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been...
Never help a...
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Source: In The...
The greatness of...
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes...
If education is...
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is...
And so we...
And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which...
If we can,...
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...
Establishing lasting peace...
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...