Quotes by : Maria Montessori

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

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge,....

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening....

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation....

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious....

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control....

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

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

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher....

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human....