“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”
“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
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
Maria Montessori
“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”
Maria Montessori
“It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch, and as though the end had almost come of those evolutionary periods which sum up the history of the heroic struggles of humanit...”
Maria Montessori
“The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.”
Maria Montessori