Quote

Of all things love is the most potent.

Maria Montessori

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Maria Montessori
Age: 81 †
Born: 1870
Born: August 31
Died: 1952
Died: May 6
Inventor
Lecturer
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Teacher
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori
Montessori
Potent
Parental
Things
Love

More quotes by Maria Montessori

Image
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
Maria Montessori
Image
A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child endures all things.
Maria Montessori
Image
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
Maria Montessori
Image
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori
Image
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
Maria Montessori
Image
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Maria Montessori
Image
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
Maria Montessori
Image
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
Maria Montessori
Image
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Maria Montessori
Image
What the hand does the mind remembers.
Maria Montessori
Image
The development of the mind comes through movement
Maria Montessori
Image
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
Maria Montessori
Image
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
Maria Montessori
Image
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
Maria Montessori
Image
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
Maria Montessori
Image
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
Maria Montessori
Image
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Maria Montessori