Maria Montessori Quotes

Most popular Maria Montessori Quotes

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. - Maria Montessori quote.
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
— Maria Montessori Spontaneous Activity in Education

art

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. - Maria Montessori quote.
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
— Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind

teaching

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels. - Maria Montessori quote.
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
— Maria Montessori Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

self-improvement growth

To ensure moral salvation, it is primarily necessary to depend on oneself, because in the moment of peril we are alone. - Maria Montessori quote.
To ensure moral salvation, it is primarily necessary to depend on oneself, because in the moment of peril we are alone.
— Maria Montessori The Advanced Montessori Method: Spontaneous Activity in Education

self-reliance

The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori quote.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
— Maria Montessori

for teachers

The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it. - Maria Montessori quote.
The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
— Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind

education

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul.  It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises. - Maria Montessori quote.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul.  It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
— Maria Montessori The Secret of Childhood

deceit

We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic.  He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. - Maria Montessori quote.
We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic.  He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
— Maria Montessori The Montessori Method

discipline