20 Famous Montessori Quotes of all time
20 Famous Montessori Quotes of all time
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skillful
that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood,
when no one can teach them anything
We must help the child to
act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of
We must clearly understand
that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to
a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being
active
Happiness is not the whole
aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character;
able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him
Education, therefore, of
little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age,
because this is the embryonic period for the formation of character and of
society, (just as the period from birth to three is that for forming the mind,
and the prenatal period that for forming the body
The greatness of the human
personality begins at the hour of birth.
It follows that at the
beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders – without effort
and quite unconsciously
It begins with a knowledge
of his surroundings. How does the child assimilate his environment? He does it
solely in virtue of one of those characteristics that we now know him to have.
This is an intense and specialized sensitiveness in consequence of which the
things about him awaken so much interest and so much enthusiasm that they
become incorporated in his very existence . The child absorbs these impressions
not with his mind but with his life itself
How does he achieve this
independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he
become free? By means of constant effort. …we know that development
results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend
interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences
At about a year and a
half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own
name
The little child’s first
movements were instinctive. Now, he acts consciously and voluntarily, and
with this comes an awakening of his spirit…. Conscious will is a power which
develops with use and activity. We must aim at cultivating the will…. Its
development is a slow process that evolves through a continuous activity in
relationship with the environment
The child has to acquire
physical independence by being self-sufficient; he must become of independent
will be using in freedom his own power of choice; he must become capable of
independent thought by working alone without interruption. The child’s
development follows a path of successive stages of independence
The secret of success is
found to lie in the right use of imagination in awakening interest, and the
stimulation of seeds of interest already sown by attractive literary and
pictorial material, but all correlated to a central idea, of greatly ennobling
inspiration – the Cosmic Plan in which all, consciously or unconsciously, serve
the Great Purpose of Life
Yet a third interesting
fact to be observed in the child of six is his need to associate himself with
others, not merely for the sake of company, but in some sort of organized
activity. He likes to mix with others in a group wherein each has a
different status. A leader is chosen, and is obeyed, and a strong group
is formed. This is a natural tendency, through which mankind becomes
organized
To make it clear whether
or not a child has understood, we should see whether he can form a vision of it
within the mind, whether he has gone beyond the level of mere understanding
the child begins to become
conscious of right and wrong, this not only as regards his own actions, but
also the actions of others…..moral consciousness is being formed and this leads
later to the social sense
The adolescent must never
be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has
there would be all kinds
of artistic occupations open to free choice both as to the time and the nature
of the work. Some must be for the individual and some would require the
cooperation of a group. They would involve artistic and linguistic ability and
imagination
A child who has become
master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been
encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which he has been
engaged, is a child filled with health and joy and remarkable for his calmness
and discipline
Fatigue also is caused by
work unsuitable to the individual. Suitable work reduces fatigue on
account of the pleasure derived from the work itself. Thus the two causes
of fatigue are unsuitable work and premature interruption of work
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