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
develops discovered education human natural process teacher
And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
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.
love-is parental montessori
Of all things love is the most potent.
confusion details teach
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
kindness children wish
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
discipline silence liberty
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.
successful punishment rewards
No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'
beauty science imagination
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
maturity young practicals
Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
independence
He who is served is limited in his independence.
discouragement conviction source
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
helping environment hinder
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.
nature
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
discipline liberty mute
Discipline must come through liberty.