Discipline 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.

Quote by Maria Montessori

Topics: Children Quotes, Potential Quotes

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us...

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us...

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, The...

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, The...

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and...

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and...

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

We cannot create observers by saying observe, but by giving them the power and the...

We cannot create observers by saying observe, but by giving them the power and the...

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the...

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good...

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which...

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but...

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena....

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena....

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for...

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is...

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is...

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when...

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when...