Famous Maria Montessori Quotations

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"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."
by Maria Montessori
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
by Maria Montessori
"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."
by Maria Montessori
"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."
by Maria Montessori
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
by Maria Montessori
"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."
by 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."
by Maria Montessori
"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 i..."
by Maria Montessori
"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus hel..."
by Maria Montessori


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