Maria Montessori Quotes

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

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

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

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.