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Maria Montessori

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The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.


— Maria Montessori


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We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.


— Maria Montessori


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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.


— Maria Montessori


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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.


— Maria Montessori


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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.


— Maria Montessori


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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.


— Maria Montessori


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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.


— Maria Montessori


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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.


— 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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