Quotes by Montessori, Maria

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obta >>

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively di >>

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to obse >>

Quotations about Order

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order int >>

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the cr >>

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same diffe >>

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be thus placed in order, that it is a good and pleasing arrangement in the room, this ordered and tranquil adjustment of theirs -- then their remaining in their places, quiet and silent, is the result of a species of lesson, not an imposition. To make them understand the idea, without calling their attention too forcibly to the practice, to have them assimilate a principle of collective order -- that is the important thing.

Montessori, Maria