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 rights needs
The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.
children fate keys
We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.
children mean independent
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
children educational progress
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
today social social-life
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
nature transformed destroyed
in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
order goodness indispensable
Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
children adults conflict
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
children years effort
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe becomes ever more aware that language refers to his surroundings, and his wish to master it consciously becomes also greater.Subconsciously and unaided, he strains himself to learn, and this effort makes his success all the more astonishing.
independent order independence
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.
spiritual goal energy
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
children men rights
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.
two intellectual essentials
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
men intelligence use
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?