Maria Montessori Quotes

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.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

No one, and no mind, was ever emancipated by merely being left alone.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.