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
strong children giving
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
children environment montessori
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
education children parenting
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
growing-up children self
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.
generosity unity together
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.
children humanity craving
Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.
children important age
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
children school doe
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
children community atmosphere
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.
running morning children
Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.
children goal childhood
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
leadership moving want
Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
actively child confound difference educator evil good lies order school seeing task
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
almost begins birth education greatness hour human mystic seem start strange
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.