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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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!
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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.
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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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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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One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.
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A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
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The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
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The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.
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It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
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The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
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In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
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An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.
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Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ...