Maria Montessori Quotes about Imagination

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Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Maria Montessori

Children, Imagination, Force

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

Maria Montessori

Children, Teaching, Imagination

Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.10, Ravenio Books