Maria Montessori

education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual. It is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences upon the

They prepare themselves for life by remaining outside of life.

Our school is not a real school; it is a house of children, i.e., an environment specially prepared for the children where the children absorb whatever culture is spread in the environment without any one teaching them.

So we found that education is not what the teacher gives: education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual. It is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences upon the environment.

preparing a series of motives of cultural activity spread in a specially prepared environment

We shall be confronted by a child not as he was considered before a powerless being an empty vessel that must be filled with our wisdom.

If we do so, we shall be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul, to the rising of a New Man who will not be the victim of events, but who will have the clarity of vision to direct and shape the future of human society.

all those who are undergoing education are isolated from society

Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country?

the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world. They prepare themselves for life by remaining outside of life.