Maria Montessori Quotes

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.

I believe that we learn by practice.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Schools should prepare people to build things, not just to think things.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense — none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.