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
Maria Montessori quotes about
teacher environment divided
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
teacher firsts tasks
The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.
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.
teacher children school
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
hands mind organs
The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
discipline intellectual found
Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.
teacher children technique
In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.
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.
spiritual children personality
If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.
soul deception might
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
today social social-life
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
cutting islands people
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
destroyed
... nothing is created or destroyed in nature ...
evolution individual force
A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.