Educational (Maria Montessori)

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active.

A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises is a child filled with joy.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Play is the work of the child.

What the hand does, the mind remembers.

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

Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

The child gives us a beautiful lesson – that in order to form and maintain our intelligence, we must use our hands.

We must respect the child and he must understand that he is respected. He needs to be prepared for everything that is going to be done for him.

Children have an absorbent mind.

To assist a child, we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.