467 Quotes by Maria Montessori

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.

At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.

All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.