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Maria Montessori
(31 Aug 1870 - 6 May 1952)
Italian physician and educator who founded the Montessori method of education that remains in use today by some public and private schools around the world.
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Science Quotes by Maria Montessori (3 quotes)
Scientific observation has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment. The task of the teacher becomes that of preparing a series of motives of cultural activity, spread over a specially prepared environment, and then refraining from obtrusive interference. Human teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servants help the master. Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and to the rising of a New Man who will not be a victim of events, but will have the clarity of vision to direct and shape the future of human society.
— Maria Montessori
In Education For a New World (1946), 4.
Teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servants help the master.
— Maria Montessori
In Education For a New World (1946), 4. Part of a longer quote on the Maria Montessori page that begins “Scientific observation has established…”.
What is a scientist?… We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
— Maria Montessori
The Montessori Method, trans. Anne E. George,(1964), 8.
See also:
- Maria Montessori - context of quote “What is a scientist?” - Medium image (500 x 250 px)
- Maria Montessori - context of quote “What is a scientist?” - Large image (800 x 400 px)
- The Montessori Method, by Maria Montessori. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Maria Montessori.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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