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 desire development
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
children done development
Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.
use lag development
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
children teaching development
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
children mind development
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
two individuality development
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
children character development
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
children development world
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
growth development levels
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
mind movement development
The development of the mind comes through movement
environmental development humans
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
children development firsts
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
consider discipline immovable individual mute rendered silent
Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
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Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.