The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Maria Montessori

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

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

Maria Montessori

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Maria Montessori

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

Maria Montessori

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Maria Montessori

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

Maria Montessori

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

Maria Montessori

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

Maria Montessori

With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Maria Montessori

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

Maria Montessori

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

Maria Montessori

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

Maria Montessori

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

Maria Montessori

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

Maria Montessori

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

Maria Montessori

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

Maria Montessori

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Maria Montessori

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori Quotes

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

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.

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

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

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

Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

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

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

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

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

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

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

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age.