Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Intelligence
Men
Experience
Hands
Doe
Firsts
Play
First
Instruments
Work
More quotes by Maria Montessori
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
Maria Montessori
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
Maria Montessori
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Maria Montessori
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
Maria Montessori
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
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
Maria Montessori
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Maria Montessori
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
Maria Montessori
The development of the mind comes through movement
Maria Montessori
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
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
Maria Montessori
The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.
Maria Montessori
We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.
Maria Montessori
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
Maria Montessori
The child will reveal himself through work.
Maria Montessori
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
Maria Montessori
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
Maria Montessori
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
Maria Montessori
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
Maria Montessori
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
Maria Montessori
