Montessori Quotes
Peace & Education
"Education is the best weapon for peace."
Maria Montessori
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Play
"Play is the work of the child"
Maria Montessori
Independence
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Maria Montessori
Concentration
"The child who concentrates is immensely happy."
Maria Montessori
The Teacher's Role
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
Movement
"Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movement."
Maria Montessori
Movement
"But mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that education theory and practice be informed by that idea."
Maria Montessori
Independence
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Maria Montessori
The Purpose of Work
"If to strive to get the means of life and happiness is called 'work', we see that each does not only work for himself, but to maintain balance and order."
Maria Montessori
The Teacher's Role
"The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child."
Maria Montessori
Exercising
"Exercises in keeping their balance and in analyzing their various movements help the children to perfect all their acts. They force a child to use his organs of balance and accustom him to pay attention to his every move. Exercises in practical living alert a child to the many actions he carries out during the day. The two assist each other: Analysis helps synthesis and its practical results, and vise versa."
Maria Montessori
Exercising
"The muscles should always serve the intellect and thus preserve their functional unity with the human personality. If [an adult] is an intelligent creature and muscularly active, then his rest lies in intelligent activity, just as the rest of every being lies in the normal exercise of its proper functions. We must therefore provide a child in his environment with means for exercising his activities."
Maria Montessori