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Maria Montessori

Read through the most famous quotes from Maria Montessori




Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.


— Maria Montessori


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Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.


— Maria Montessori


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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.


— Maria Montessori


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Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.


— Maria Montessori


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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.


— Maria Montessori


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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.


— Maria Montessori


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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.


— Maria Montessori


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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!


— Maria Montessori


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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'


— Maria Montessori


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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.


— Maria Montessori


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About Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes




Did you know about Maria Montessori?

Although Montessori and her educational approach were highly popular in the United States Maria Montessori was not without opposition and controversy. Montessori also realized that acknowledging that all children were individuals and treating them as such would yield to better learning and fulfilled potential in each particular child. In 1909 Montessori held the first teacher training course in her new method in Città di Castello Italy.

Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori (August 31 1870 – May 6 1952) was an Italian physician and educator a noted humanitarian and devout Roman Catholic best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name and her writing on scientific pedagogy.

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