Quotes by Maria Montessori

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

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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

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.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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.'

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.

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.'

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.

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