01UndatedIf intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
02UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedIf education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?Maria Montessori / quote ↗
05UndatedIn the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
06UndatedThrough machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
07UndatedDependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
08UndatedThere are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
09UndatedThe social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
10UndatedEarly childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
11UndatedWhen you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
12UndatedIf education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
13UndatedEvery one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
14UndatedHow can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?Maria Montessori / quote ↗
15UndatedIf the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
16UndatedIf help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
17UndatedWhen the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.Maria Montessori / quote ↗
