The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORIEarly childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
More Maria Montessori Quotes
-
-
Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
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 -
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 -
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one’s own hand – that is what is necessary.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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