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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.

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

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

Maria Montessori
Teaching, Teach, Correcting

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 only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Maria Montessori
Teaching, Men, Language

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

Maria Montessori
Children, Teaching, Energy

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Maria Montessori
Children, Teaching, Development
Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.28, Orient Blackswan

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

Maria Montessori
Spiritual, Teaching, Goal
Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

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

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.

Maria Montessori
Teacher, Children, Teaching

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