KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Maria Montessori Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Maria Montessori

Showing 61-70 of 81 Quotes by Maria Montessori

With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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 helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.

~Maria Montessori

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Educator

Born: August 31st, 1870

Died: May 6th, 1952

Links

Find Maria Montessori on Amazon

Related Authors

Juan Enriquez
Harvey V. Fineberg
Virchand Gandhi
John Holt
Sarah Kay
Horace Mann
Sugata Mitra
Max Muller
Kavita Ramdas
Bunker Roy

Popular Authors

Anthony Bourdain Freddie Mercury Meek Mill Elon Musk Edgar Allan Poe Albert Schweitzer Walter Scott Serena Williams

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1888 - Dale Carnegie

1632 - Baruch Spinoza

1713 - Junipero Serra

1713 - Laurence Sterne

1740 - John Bacon

1784 - Zachary Taylor

1808 - Alphonse Karr

1826 - Carlo Collodi

1864 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

1876 - Ameen Rihani

Birthdays on November 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Failure Friendship Great Humor Parenting Respect Science