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
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.
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.
teaching teach correcting
Teach by teaching, not by correcting
environmental development humans
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.
achievement causes imperfect
Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.
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.
dog two challenges
If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!
hands mind doe
What the hand does the mind remembers.
weapons today assuming
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.
beautiful children problem
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationalist will disappear.
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.
growth development levels
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.