“The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.” MayChildrenGrowsImaginationSecretTeachingFieldsRegardSeedsHeatFertileMontessoriGood TeachingSecret Intelligence Book:To Educate the Human Potential Source: To Educate the Human Potential
“In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.” WorldLittlesHas BeensImportantLastsEducationCenturyApproachImpactExperimentsContemporaryEnjoyedMainstreamEducatorCharismaticMontessori Author:Howard Gardner
“For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?” IfsUseIndividualBehindsDevelopmentTransmissionMontessoriLagCooperative Learning Author:Maria Montessori
“...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. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.” HumansChildrenDoeMadeProcessNaturalHuman BeingsVirtueEnvironmentTeacherSpecialListeningActivityTasksExperienceSeriesMotiveMontessori Author:Maria Montessori
“There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.” ChildrenMadeChoicesSpontaneousMontessori Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.” TwoSchoolYoungTeachMontessori Author:Dakota Fanning