Maria Montessori — Hopeful Quotes

65 quotes · Educator, Physician

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Maria Montessori Quotes

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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Hopeful

“It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.”

Children Law Strong

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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Hopeful

“The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.”

Children Teacher Errors

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Hopeful

“The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.”

Use Tasks Instruction

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Hopeful

“Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.”

Choices Process

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“Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.”

Independence Dignity

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“Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.”

Ideas Reality Intellectual

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“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.”

Children Mother Baby

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“If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.”

Children Spiritual Personality

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“The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.”

Children Progress Educational

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“We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction”

Children Care Roles

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“The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.”

Children Adults Mold

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“The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.”

Energy Education Personality

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