Maria Montessori Quotes

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

...The wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education is in childhood.. - - This most important part of education is left entirely in the hands of the mother. She prepares the soil for future culture.... But the mother cannot give what she does not possess; weakness cannot impart strength.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

Play is the work of childhood.

We've got to understand that the ages of zero to three are the most formative years of a person's life, the time they learn the concept of reward and punishment and develop a conscience, and that 50 percent of all learned human response is learned in the first year of life.