Quotations from Maria Montessori
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria MontessoriWe especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria MontessoriI keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
Maria MontessoriI would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria CallasNever help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria MontessoriIf 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.
Maria MontessoriThe task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Maria MontessoriWe teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria MontessoriOne test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria MontessoriDiscipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria MontessoriThe only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria MontessoriThe 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.
Maria MontessoriBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria RilkeLive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria RilkeWho has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria RilkeI was in choir my whole life. I'm hoping at some point to be able to explore singing again as well, because I still take singing lessons every week.
Maria MenounosI've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
Maria BartiromoGood teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria CallasI think Channel One was very integral in my career.
Maria MenounosSurely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rainer Maria Rilke
