Maria Montessori Quotes

"I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger."
-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

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
-Maria Montessori in Education quotes.

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
-Maria Montessori in Tolerance quotes.

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

"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
-Maria Montessori

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
-Maria Montessori in Children quotes.

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
-Maria Montessori in Science quotes.

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
-Maria Montessori

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
-Maria Montessori

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