Quotes About Education

Maria Montessori

But, above all it is the education of adolescents that is important, because adolescence is the time when the child enters on the state of [adult]hood and becomes a member of society.

Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit. Here

It might be said that the same thing is true of every form of education; a man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.

Sá»± th?t là chúng ta không th? t?o ra má»™t thiên tài. Chúng ta ch? có th? cho ??a tr? cÆ¡ há»™i ?? hoàn thành nh?ng kh? n?ng ti?m ?n c?a mình.

?? há»— tr? má»™t ??a tr?, chúng ta ph?i cung c?p cho chúng môi tr??ng mà s? cho phép chúng phát tri?n tá»± do.

D?y b?ng cách gi?ng d?y ch? không ph?i b?ng cách sá»­a.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting.

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

Among the pictures in our "Children's House" in Rome we have hung a copy of Raphael's "Madonna della Seggiola", and this picture we have chosen as the emblem of the "Children's Houses". For

Education is to guide activity, not repress it. Environment cannot create human power, but only give it scope and material, direct it, or at most but call it forth; and the teacher's task is first to nourish and assist, to watch, encourage, guide, induce, rather than to interfere, prescribe, or restrict

Sergi says truly: "To-day an urgent need imposes itself upon society: the reconstruction of methods in education and instruction, and he who fights for this cause, fights for human regeneration.

The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This

The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;–such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontanous manifestations of the child's nature. If

the child has a type of mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

Humanity shows itself in all its intellectual splendour during this tender age as the sun shows itself at the dawn, and the flower in the first unfolding of the petals; and we must respect religiously, reverently, these first indications of individuality. If

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

From a biological point of view, the concept of liberty in the education of the child in his earliest years must be understood as demanding those conditions adapted to the most favourable development of his entire individuality. So

What school worries about the kind of civilization the children are forced to live in? The only thing officialdom is bothered about is whether or not the syllabus has been followed.

Recognizing the merits of the child does not diminish the authority of the father and the mother for when they come to realize that they are not the constructors, but merely the helpers of this construction, then they will be able to do their duty better; they will help the child with a greater vision.

There are social deficiencies apt to strike the spirit of young men attending the university and which do strike them, but what is the official admonition? "You students should not concern yourselves with politics. You must attend to your studies and after you have formed yourselves, then go into the world," Yes. That is quite so, but education today does not form an intelligence capable of visualizing the epoch and the problems of the times in which they live.

Dante gives excellent advice to teachers when he says, "Let thy words be counted." The more carefully we cut away useless words, the more perfect will become the lesson. And

formular planes para una futura reconstrucción, la educación se considera universalmente como uno de los medios más eficaces para llevar a cabo esta reconstrucción; porque no cabe duda de que, desde el punto de vista psíquico, el género humano se halla por debajo

work with deficient children (1898 to 1900)