"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

posted in knowledge


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?

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

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

-Maria Montessori

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

-Maria Montessori

warView Quote
"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

teacherView Quote
"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

teacherView Quote
"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

teacherView Quote
"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

successView Quote

More Quotes About knowledge

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."

-Stanley Fish

knowledgeView Quote
"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."

-Harrison Salisbury

knowledgeView Quote
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

-Abraham Cowley

knowledgeView Quote
"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."

-George Andrew Olah

knowledgeView Quote
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."

-Carl Clinton Van Doren

knowledgeView Quote
"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"

-Will Harvey

knowledgeView Quote