The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. - Maria Montessori Quotes
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. Maria Montessori
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say,

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

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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world - Maria Montessori Quotes

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori Quotes

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. - Maria Montessori Quotes

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori Quotes

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Montessori Quotes

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing. - Maria Montessori Quotes

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.

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If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. - Maria Montessori Quotes

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Maria Montessori Quotes

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori Quotes

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

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