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
real order needs
Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
children punishment use
With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.
children dignity consciousness
Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.
children mold adults
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
mother spiritual children
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
work affection substitutes
There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
art perfection perfect
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
children men vivid
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.
children movement should
Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
children punishment effort
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
teacher children book
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this is the book of the teacher; this is the book which must inspire her actions . . .
heritage parts-of-life
Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.
children lying men
The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.
powerful children lying
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.