Maria Montessori Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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?”

“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.”

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

“The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!”

“The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.”