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
character independent men
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.
children character development
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
real book sight
There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
war politician montessori
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
children soul creation
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
children men he-man
It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.
dog two challenges
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!
children persons
A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.
teaching men language
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
children ideas people
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.
spiritual teacher intellectual
The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.
mother baby children
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.
children ideas differences
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
ideas curriculum facts
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.