Quotes by : Maria Montessori

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs....

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.....

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

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

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

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom....

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor....

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social....

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

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men,....