Quote

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

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
Future
Sensitive
Past
Roots
Whole
Infinite
Children
Toward
Life
Learning
Touches
Education
Distant
Child
Climbs
Point
Whoever

More quotes by Maria Montessori

Image
The development of the mind comes through movement
Maria Montessori
Image
The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.
Maria Montessori
Image
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.
Maria Montessori
Image
Order is not goodness but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
Maria Montessori
Image
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
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
Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child will reveal himself through work.
Maria Montessori
Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.
Maria Montessori
Image
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Maria Montessori
Image
Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.
Maria Montessori
Image
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
Maria Montessori
Image
There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.
Maria Montessori
Image
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori
Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
Maria Montessori
Image
Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
Maria Montessori
Image
The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one it is everything.
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
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
Maria Montessori
Image
When we want to infuse new ideas, to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, to breathe new vigor into its national traits, we must use the children as our vehicle for little can be accomplished with adults.
Maria Montessori