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 giving liberty
To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.
teacher children errors
The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.
mean psychology wish
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.
teacher children school
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
children emotional ideas
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well as physical, and for that we must offer grand and lofty ideas to the human mind,
children voice silence
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
real self preparation
The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.
teacher thinking would-be
A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
education personality use
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.
children parent encounters
It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
children skills surprise
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
children mind poverty
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!
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For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
educational practice ideas
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.