Quote

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

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
Children
Potentialities
Enigma
Highest
Child

More quotes by Maria Montessori

Image
He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.
Maria Montessori
Image
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Maria Montessori
Image
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
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
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
Maria Montessori
Image
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
Maria Montessori
Image
There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life
Maria Montessori
Image
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
Maria Montessori
Image
These words reveal the child’s inner needs ‘Help me to do it alone’.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child becomes a person through work.
Maria Montessori
Image
My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
Maria Montessori
Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.
Maria Montessori
Image
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
Maria Montessori
Image
He who is served is limited in his independence.
Maria Montessori
Image
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
Maria Montessori
Image
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.
Maria Montessori
Image
A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria Montessori
Image
Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.
Maria Montessori
Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
Maria Montessori
Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
Maria Montessori