Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessoriwas an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in some public and private schools throughout the world...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth31 August 1870
CityMarche, Italy
CountryItaly
choices process free-choice
Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.
mind awakening firsts
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
maturity young practicals
Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
victory nihilism progress
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
inspirational education teacher
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
children years mind
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
fundamentals bases clear
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
education teacher teaching
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
reality ideas growth
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.
children educational tasks
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
mother baby children
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.
children exercise color
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.
children mind development
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
children names years
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.