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Maria Montessori Quotes about Education

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

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

Maria Montessori
Education, Children, Parenting

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Maria Montessori
Education, Children, Tests

Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.

Maria Montessori
Education, Children, Learning

Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.

Maria Montessori
Education, Path, Release

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

Maria Montessori
Education, Children, Doe

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Maria Montessori
Education, Greatness, Personality

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori
Inspirational, Education, Teacher
"The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Maria Montessori
Education, Teacher, Teaching

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

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

The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize that the cornerstone of education is the development of the human personality, and that in this regard education is of immediate importance for the salvation of mankind.

Maria Montessori
Education, Personality, Energy

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
Education, Tasks, Arbitrary
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.114, Rowman & Littlefield

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