Maria Montessori Art Quotations

The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from the first moment of conception, is an art that joins home and school. That means parent and teacher supporting one another in their responsibility to the life of the child.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!