Wise quote from Maria Montessori about children

Last updated on May 19, 2021 by Roger Kaufman

Maria Montessori about children

A very wise quote from Dr. Mary Montessori.
Absolutely exemplary!

“In reality, the child carries within him the key to his enigmatic individual existence from the very beginning. It has an inner blueprint of the soul and predetermined guidelines for its development.

But all of this is initially extremely delicate and sensitive, and an untimely intervention by the adult with his will and his exaggerated ideas about his own power can destroy this blueprint or steer its realization down the wrong path.

Children are guests who ask for directions.

Here is an instructional video that aptly explains the basics of Maria Monthessori's method.

The following can be read on Wikipedia:

She was already interested in natural sciences when she was at school and therefore - against the resistance of her conservative father - attended a technical high school. After Matura she tried Medicine to study.

Studying at universities has generally been possible for women in Italy since 1875. But she was rejected by the university because studying medicine was reserved for men. That's why she studied at the University of Rome from 1890 to 1892 initially natural sciences.

After completing her first university degree, she finally managed to study medicine - as one of the first five women in Italy. In 1896 she finally entered the University of Rome doctorate.

However, the widespread rumor that she was the first woman in Italy to receive a doctorate is not true. In the same year, Montessori represented Italian women in Berlin International Congress of Women's Aspirations.

Study

During her studies she was particularly concerned with embryology and theory of evolution. Their view of science corresponded to this positivism.

Scientific work

Like her two predecessors, Montessori was convinced that the treatment of the “imbecile” or “idiots” was not medical, but educational Problem is. She therefore called for the establishment of special schools for the affected children.

She wrote her doctoral thesis in 1896 Antagonistic hallucinations in the field of psychiatry. She started working in her own practice. Then her most important research years began.

By 1907 she had developed her anthropological-biological theory and dealt with the neuropsychiatric principles on which her pedagogy and her practical experiments in children's homes were based.

Source: Wikipedia

13 Mary Montessori Quotations

“The child who concentrates is very happy.”

– Maria Montessori

“Free the possibility of the child, and you will certainly turn him straight into the globe.”

– Maria Montessori

“Early youth education and learning is the essence of improving culture.”

– Maria Montessori

“Never help a teenager with a job where they feel they can succeed.”

– Maria Montessori

“To help a youngster, we must provide him with an atmosphere that will certainly allow him to establish himself easily.”

– Maria Montessori

“The very first concept that the youth should get is the distinction between great and evil.”

– Maria Montessori

“The best indicator of an educator’s success is being able to say: The young people are currently functioning as if I didn’t exist.”

– Maria Montessori

“Education and learning is a task of self-organization through which man adapts to the problems of life.”

– Maria Montessori

“If education and learning are a defense of life, you will certainly understand that it is necessary that education and learning go hand in hand with life throughout the program.”

– Maria Montessori

“There are two beliefs that can support man: this Trust in God and also faith in oneself. Furthermore, these two confidences must coexist: the initial comes from one's own inner life, the second from one's own life in culture."

– Maria Montessori

“If all of humanity is to be united into one league, all challenges must be removed to ensure that boys all over the world play in one yard as children.”

– Maria Montessori

“Developing long-term calm is the task of education and learning. All national politics can do is stay out of the fight.”

– Maria Montessori

“When the youth begins to accept and also use the created language to share his simple reflections, he is waiting for the main task; and also this health and fitness is a study that is not yet old or various other subordinate conditions of psychological maturity.”

– Maria Montessori