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
children opportunity giving
Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover.
mind movement development
The development of the mind comes through movement
children personality firsts
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.
exercise essence environment
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.
men often-is childhood
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
children eye soul
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.
beauty science imagination
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
children independent independence
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
kindness children wish
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
children parenting men
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
children needs helping
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.
stars ocean tree
Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.
religious sweet children
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
life mean men
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.