Quote

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

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
Experience
Young
Work
Maturity
Practicals
Practical
Lead

More quotes by Maria Montessori

Image
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
Maria Montessori
Image
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
Maria Montessori
Image
Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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
It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Maria Montessori
Image
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
Maria Montessori
Image
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
Maria Montessori
Image
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
Maria Montessori
Image
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character it is a preparation of the spirit.
Maria Montessori
Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!
Maria Montessori
Image
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
Maria Montessori
Image
There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Maria Montessori
Image
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
Image
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
Maria Montessori
Image
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Image
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
Maria Montessori
Image
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
Maria Montessori
Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
Maria Montessori
Image
It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.
Maria Montessori