If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
MARIA MONTESSORIIf the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
MARIA MONTESSORIWith man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it.
MARIA MONTESSORIWhen you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
MARIA MONTESSORIJoy, 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 MONTESSORIThe acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORIWe await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
MARIA MONTESSORIThere is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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 MONTESSORIWoman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.
MARIA MONTESSORIIt is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe 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 MONTESSORINoble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
MARIA MONTESSORIThe only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI