Maria Montessori Quotes

I just like seeing kids inspired.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Staying curious keeps me inspired.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

When I think back on my favorite teachers, I don't remember anymore much of what they taught me, but I sure remember being excited about learning it. What has stayed with me are not the facts they imparted, but the excitement about learning they inspired.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.

You learn a lot from kids.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.