Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt 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.
More 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 -
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
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 -
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
MARIA MONTESSORI -
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 -
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
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 -
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI -
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