Maria Montessori Quotes

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

I've worked with children all my life.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.