Top 29 Montessori School Quotes
#1. I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
Dakota Fanning
#2. I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
Jack White
#3. We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#4. The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.
Dara Horn
#5. A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.
J.D. Robb
#7. I like to just hang out. My friends don't like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times I'm busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.
Jenna Boyd
#8. Tolerate the dull: they too have their story
Max Ehrmann
#9. I'm a hip-hop dancer, but when I'm in my room it turns into this lyrical nonsense, and I listen to Phil Wickham and India Arie, who has the most precious songs.
Alyson Stoner
#10. If the child shows through its conversation that the educational work of the school is being undermined by the attitude taken in his home, he will be sent back to his parents, to teach them thus how to take advantage of their good opportunities.
Maria Montessori
#11. I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Steven Weinberg
#12. At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Maria Montessori
#13. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
Maria Montessori
#14. One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.
Eileen Caddy
#15. The school must permit the free, natural manifestations of the child if in the school scientific pedagogy is to be born. This is the essential reform. No one may affirm that such a
Maria Montessori
#16. By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he need the help of special scholastic influences. So great are the conquests he has made that one may well say: the child who goes to school at three is already a little man.
Maria Montessori
#17. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.
Gina Greenlee
#18. Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.
Christopher Paolini
#19. My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.
Maria Montessori
#20. A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.
Martin Scorsese
#21. What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.
Maria Montessori
#22. When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.
Maria Montessori
#23. From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.
Robert A. Heinlein
#24. The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.
Bill Nye
#25. It is also important to remember that no state in the United States requires a homeschooling parent to have a public school teaching certificate, just as many private schools do not require one (though some, such as Montessori and Waldorf, require teacher training in their unique programs). The
Patrick Farenga
#26. The tiny cost of failure ... is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
Seth Godin
#27. To consider the school as a place where instruction is given is one point of view. But, to consider the school as a preparation for life is another. In the latter case, the school must satisfy all the needs of life.
Maria Montessori
#28. A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
Chaz Bono
#29. The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Maria Montessori
