Maria Montessori Quote

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.


Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work (1957)


It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his...

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his...

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his...

It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his...