Maria Montessori: Work

Maria Montessori was Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician. Explore interesting quotes on work.
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

Maria Montessori
Peaceful , War , Education , Peace

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

Maria Montessori
Success , Children , Teachers , Success

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

Maria Montessori

Source: The Absorbent Mind (1949), Ch. 27 : The Teacher's Preparation, p. 283; part of this has become paraphrased as :
Context: One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Success , Children

“It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.”

Maria Montessori
Love , Understanding , Teachers , Universe

“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.”

Maria Montessori

Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 9
The Absorbent Mind (1949)

Soul , Teachers , Waiting , Future

“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation. The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”

Maria Montessori

Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook: A short guide to her ideas and materials (1914), Schocken Books, Inc." New York, p. 94

Education , Freedom , Baby