Maria Montessori Order Quotations

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in order, trying to make them understand the idea that thus placed they look well, and that it is a good thing to be placed in order . . .

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.