Maria Montessori Quotes
"The child must know that he is a miracle""Only through freedom and environment"" Movement with purpose is essential ""The child thus prepared is really an inexhaustible reservoir""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.""The tendency to socialize is primitive and for this reason progress finds a degree of acceptance on all sides and is not met with as much opposition as formerly.""He must first clear the ground to lay the foundations strongly.""Education demands only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.""Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.""Education must begin at birth.""Adults move because their will directs them. The small child is urged on by the life force expressing itself spontaneously through him.""How is it possible not to feel his inner beauty, so akin to the spiritual beauty which the child reveals? The child’s power is our power.""The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.""The child is a well-spring of love; whenever he is touched, he brings joy to the person who touches him.""The child has a different relation to his environment from ours. The child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul.""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.""Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.""A child in work becomes a person with many attributes, one who is independent, able to make decisions, open to the world and aware of the world around him.""Discipline must come through liberty. Here is a great principle which is difficult for followers of man-made disciplines to understand.""To aid life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the basic task of the educator."
