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 order excellence
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
real order needs
Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
children order ideas
If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .
keys order reactions
Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.
children order knowing
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.
order goodness indispensable
Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.
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.
children order mind
Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.
children order appreciate
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.
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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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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!