Montessori Quick Bites

Victory and Peace Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing peace is the work of education. We must convince the world of the need for a universal, collective effort to build the foundation for peace. Love is not the cause but the effect of the normal development of the individual. - Dr. Maria Montessori Quotes from Peace and ...
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No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child. Historically, the oppressed - slaves, the servant class and finally the workers - were minority groups who sought their redemption through social change, often in open battle between the oppressed and their oppressors… But the social problem of the child is not one of class, race ...
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Little children perform slowly and deliberately many complicated actions which they love—dressing and undressing themselves, setting the table, eating, etc. In doing all these things they show extreme patience, and they carry on to a conclusion their laborious tasks, overcoming every difficulty which arises from an organism being still in the ...
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“ When the teachers were weary of my observations, they began to allow the children to do whatever they pleased. I saw children with their feet on the tables, or with their fingers in their noses, and no intervention was made to correct them. I saw others push their companions, and I saw dawn in the faces of these an expression of violence; ...
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There are people who think that the Montessori schools will not teach enough, and there are also people who fear that they will teach too much. “These delicate brains that you are training,” said a French gentleman to Dr. Montessori, “these fine ears, attuned to every faintest sound: how will they ever learn to support the uproar of our Paris ...
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