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
hands mind organs
The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
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!
mind awakening firsts
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
children years mind
Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.
children mind development
Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
attitude children mind
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.
children shining mind
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
hands mind humans
The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.
mind movement development
The development of the mind comes through movement
children order mind
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
hands mind doe
What the hand does the mind remembers.
children mind able
The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.
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.
children self shoes
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.