Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator known for developing the Montessori method, which emphasizes child-led learning and independence.

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Born
August 31, 1870
Died
May 6, 1952
Quotes
321
Rank
#258

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"...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. 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."

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"The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future."

Children Use Shapes
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"Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur."

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"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."

Children Environment Rich
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"Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities."

Education Path Release
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"Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace."

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"Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence."

Children Independent Law
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"At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline."

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"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear."

Children Eye Soul
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"These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’."

Children Needs Helping
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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"

Teaching Men Language
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"Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear."

Beautiful Children Problem
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"A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars."

Children Inspiration Book
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"It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it."

Teacher Children First Love
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"Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation."

Children Discovery Times Have Changed
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"I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method."

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