black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Maria Montessori

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anthology Expression Form Part Province Psychology Some Study
We 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 MONTESSORI

Await Birth Child Soul Successive We
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

Appreciate Capable Enmourous Factor Feel Fewel Human Joy Love Other Production Soul Value
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
MARIA MONTESSORI

Ablem Say Children Exist Greatest Now Sign Success Teacher Work
The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Accord Adult Ancient Child Fashion Growth Human Oatternm Require Persist Personality Progressive Society Superficial Unalter
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Anything Babyhood Every Language Learn Old One Speak
There are two ‘faiths’ which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one’s inner life, the second to one’s life in society.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Faith God Human Oneself Two Unhold
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Consider Education General Lead System Way
The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Acquisition Hope Knowledge Line Little Made Such Transmission
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Characteristics Degree Hand Highest Human
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Confirm Create Draw Even Feel Gift Hand Must Obey See Soul Task
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Education Establish Last Peace Work
Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all – zero!
MARIA MONTESSORI

Building Child Construction General Indeed Nothing Physically Power Realize Small Speak Work Zero
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

Acquire Action Arrive Develop Equilibrium Free Freely Master Move Naturally Person Quickly Spiritual
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

Ability Color Movement Necessary Population Reality See
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI

Aid Balance Basic Educator Free However Learn Life Position Task Upright

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Maria Montessori Quotes