Maria Montessori
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
-Maria Montessori
beauty
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-Maria Montessori
education
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
-Maria Montessori
education
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.
-Maria Montessori
education
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
-Maria Montessori
education
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
-Maria Montessori
future
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
-Maria Montessori
happiness
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
-Maria Montessori
imagination
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
-Maria Montessori
knowledge
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
-Maria Montessori
men
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-Maria Montessori
peace
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
-Maria Montessori
poetry
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-Maria Montessori
politics
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
-Maria Montessori
power
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
-Maria Montessori
science
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.'
-Maria Montessori
success
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.
-Maria Montessori
teacher
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.'
-Maria Montessori
teacher
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
-Maria Montessori
teacher
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-Maria Montessori
war
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-Maria Montessori
work
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