The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.
- Maria Montessori
More Quotes By Maria Montessori
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution... It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much,... The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.
A child’s character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered… or the freedom favoring his development... …we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process... The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for... Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.
The child has a different relation to his environment from ours… the child absorbs it. The things he... The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult,... Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does... Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have... Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots...
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