As we celebrate Montessori Education Week, we thought it
would be interesting to share some of Maria Montessori’s most famous quotes
from her books and speeches.
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the
happiness of the child”
“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. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total
development lags behind?”
“Here is an essential
principle of education: to teach details is to bring confusion; to establish
the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.”
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all
mathematics, not all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
“The first essential for the child’s development is
concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”
“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the
child engages and try to understand them.”
“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they
learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all
politics can do is keep us out of war.”
“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.”
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