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
independent reality independence
No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...
children teaching imagination
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
children order mind
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
children problem oppression
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
children trying form
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
children personality essentials
The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.
children montessori
The child who concentrates is immensely happy
teacher real character
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.
children fruit bears
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
love-is parental montessori
Of all things love is the most potent.
children light desire
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
children taken method
I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.
children promise mankind
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
character taught explanation
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.