Quote

If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!

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
Going
Begins
Ladders
Things
Dog
Bite
Challenges
Bites
Turn
Kick
Simply
Kicks
Either
Round
Turns
Prefer
Ankles
Two
Rounds
Ladder

More quotes by 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
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
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
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
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
Maria Montessori
Image
The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.
Maria Montessori
Image
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
Maria Montessori
Image
Of all things love is the most potent.
Maria Montessori
Image
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
Maria Montessori
Image
It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for 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
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
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
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
Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
Maria Montessori
Image
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
Image
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
Maria Montessori
Image
Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
Maria Montessori