Quotes by Maria Montessori

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.

There are two faiths which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to ones inner life, the second to ones life in society.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

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

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.