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No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves

No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

Maria Montessori
Solitude, Secret, Degrees
Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

Maria Montessori
Two, Intellectual, Essentials

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Maria Montessori
Children, Believe, Knowing
Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Maria Montessori
Children, Growing Up, Adults

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

Maria Montessori
Children, Adults, Action

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

Maria Montessori
Children, Lying, Men

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.

Maria Montessori
Children, Men, Rights

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Maria Montessori
Cutting, Islands, People

A teacher, therefore, who would think that he could prepare himself for his mission through study alone would be mistaken. The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Maria Montessori
Teacher, Thinking, Tasks

It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Maria Montessori
Effort, Wonder, Individual

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Maria Montessori
Spiritual, Lying, Men

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

Maria Montessori
Teacher, Tasks, Firsts

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

Maria Montessori
Destroyed

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

Maria Montessori
Teacher, Children, Technique

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Maria Montessori
Nature, Loss, Disaster
Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.160, Orient Blackswan

One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Maria Montessori
Spiritual, Teacher, Children
"The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Maria Montessori
Children, Parent, Encounters
Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.216, Orient Blackswan

The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

Maria Montessori
Children, Mean, Growth

Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.

Maria Montessori
Country, Civilization, Humanity
Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

Maria Montessori
Soul, Deception, Deceit

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori
Use, Lag, Development
The Absorbent Mind ch. 1 (1949)

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