'Maria Montessori' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Montessori, Maria Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Children's House

  1915, role: actress , character name: Herself

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Famous quotes by Maria Montessori:

"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life."

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

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

"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

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

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

"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world"

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

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

"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."

"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."

"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."

"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."

"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"

"We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master."

"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."

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

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

"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"