467 Quotes by Maria Montessori

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to a young child not to be allowed to use the apparatus but to sit still and do nothing.

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 fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.