Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. -Maria Montessori Health
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 Education
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature. -Maria Montessori Science
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 Teacher
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. -Maria Montessori Peace
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 one's inner life, the second to one's life in society. -Maria Montessori Society
In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely. -Maria Montessori Health
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course. -Maria Montessori Education
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? -Maria Montessori Poetry
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 Teacher
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 Knowledge
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic. -Maria Montessori Age
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. -Maria Montessori Education
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. -Maria Montessori Men
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 Education
The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality. -Maria Montessori Respect
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. -Maria Montessori Science
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. -Maria Montessori Marriage
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. -Maria Montessori Intelligence
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. -Maria Montessori Patriotism
