"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war."
-Maria Montessori
WorkView 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
posted in Teacher
Other Quotes by Maria Montessori
Discover more inspiring quotes by Maria Montessori
"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
KnowledgeView 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
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
-Maria Montessori
HappinessView Quote
"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."
-Maria Montessori
PowerView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
-Robert Frost
TeacherView Quote
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
-Bill Gates
TeacherView Quote
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
TeacherView Quote
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-Hector Berlioz
TeacherView Quote
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
TeacherView Quote
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
TeacherView Quote