Maria Montessori Intellectual Quotations

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. It’s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.