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
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The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
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Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
adults environment missions
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
children adults environment
The adult works to improve his environment while the child works to improve himself.
exercise essence environment
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.
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The child should live in an environment of beauty.
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Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
children environment rich
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
children environment montessori
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.
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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.
teacher art children
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from the first moment of conception, is an art that joins home and school. That means parent and teacher supporting one another in their responsibility to the life of the child.
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There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
children order excellence
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.