In her 1946 book, Education in a New World, ... education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.
More Quotes from Maria Montessori:
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
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
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
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