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 educational training
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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.
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.
children educational progress
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
education greatness personality
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.
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When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But 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.
inspirational education teacher
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
children educational tasks
Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.
education tasks arbitrary
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
education teacher children
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
peace war educational
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
education children able
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
education path should
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.