Maria Montessori Quotes

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

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

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

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

If 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.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

There can be no substitute for work neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.