Quotes & Sayings About The Montessori Method

It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method ... I have studied the child; I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it, and that is what is called the Montessori Method. — Maria Montessori

Montessori Schools. Dr. Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method of teaching in the early 1900s after observing children's natural curiosity and innate desire to learn. — Daniel H. Pink

A method of schooling founded by the Italian educator Maria Montessori that emphasizes collaborative, explorative learning, and whose alumni include Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales; video-game designer Will Wright; Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos; chef Julia Child; and rap impresario Sean Combs. — Daniel Coyle

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth. — Maria Montessori

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade ... — Katharine Graham

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

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child. — 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