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Quotable Quotes

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Ms. Anahita

Our aim is not merely to make children understand, and still less to force them to memorize, but so to touch their imaginations as to enhance them to their innermost core.

Dr. Maria Montessori

The most sensitive, most delicate of instruments: the mind of the little child.

Dr. Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of education procedure is the happiness of the child.

Dr. Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I do not exist."

Dr. Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Dr. Maria Montessori

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Dr. Maria Montessori

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Dr. Maria Montessori

The most sensitive, most delicate of instruments: the mind of the little child.

Dr. Maria Montessori

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Dr. Maria Montessori

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Dr. Maria Montessori

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Dr. Maria Montessori

Help me, to help myself.