467 Quotes by Maria Montessori

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.