玛利亚•蒙台梭利（MariaMontessori, 1870-1952）， 她是全球教育史上一位杰出的幼儿教育思想家和改革家。她是意大利历史上第一位学医的女性和第一位女医学博士。小时候学习很多女孩不喜欢的数学，学完数学后，中学毕业后，学习现代语言与自然科学，再后来专攻生物学，学生物学发现自己对医学有兴趣，开始主攻医学，学了医学的她又开始了儿童的教育。她是教育史上一位杰出的幼儿教育思想家和改革家，她于1907年在意大利的罗马圣罗伦佐区创办了世界上第一所“儿童之家”，通过观察与研究，逐步建立了自己独特的幼儿教育理论和方法。
她创立的幼儿和平教育理念与方法对于推动人类和平做出了巨大的贡献，因此她在1949年、1950年和1951年连续三次荣获诺贝尔和平奖提名，这也是诺贝尔奖历史上至今唯一因其教育成就而获提名者。
- 蒙台梭利名言中英文
1、谁若不能独立，谁就谈不上自由。
Who can not be independent, who can not talk about freedom.
2、儿童教育是人类最重要的一个问题。
Children's education is one of the most important problems of human beings.
3、教师必须为形成较好人类而献出一切。
Teachers must give everything for the good man.
4、建立在规则上的自由，才是真正的自由！
The freedom to set up in the rules is the real freedom!
5、儿童对活动的需要几乎比食物的需要更为强烈。
Children's need for activities is much stronger than the need for food.
6、儿童心灵上的许多烙印，都是成人无意间烙下的。
Many of the children's minds are branded with the intention of an adult.
7、激发生命，让生命自由发展，这是教育者的首要任务。
Stimulate the life, let the life free development, this is the educator's primary mission.
8、教育体系是以感官基础，以思考为过程，以自由为目的。
The educational system is based on the senses, taking the thinking as the process and the freedom as the goal.
9、儿童应该得到成人的爱，而不是成人忙于生活所残余的爱。
Children should be loved by the adult, not by the love of the adult life.
10、教育所要求的只有一项：通过孩子的内在力量来达到自我的学习。
Education requires only one: through the child's inner strength to achieve self learning.
11、儿童的一切教育都必须遵循一个原则，即帮助孩子身心自然的发展。
All children's education must follow a principle, that is, to help children develop physically and mentally.
12、我看到了，我忘记了；我听到了，我记住了；我做过了，我理解了。
I saw it, I forgot, I heard it, I remember, I did it, I understand.
13、学习正确答案将帮助孩子完成学业，但学会如何学习是为一生做准备。
Learning the correct answer will help children to complete their studies, but learn how to learn is to prepare for life.
14、儿童的进步不是取决于年龄，而是取决于能够自由地观看他周围的一切。
The progress of a child is not determined by age, but by the freedom to see everything around him.
15、我们对儿童所做的一切，都会开花结果，不仅影响他一生，也决定他一生。
We have done everything for children, will bear fruit, not only affect his life, also decided his life.
16、当儿童还没有发展起控制能力的时候，“让儿童想干什么就干什么”是与自由观念相违背的。
When children do not have the ability to control the development of the time, "let the children want to do anything" is contrary to the concept of freedom.
17、教育就是激发生命，充实生命，协助孩子们用自己的力量生存下去，并帮助他们发展这种精神。
Education is to inspire life, to enrich life, to help the children with their own strength to survive, and to help them develop the spirit.
18、道德的营养不良和精神的中毒对人的心灵的危害，正如身体的营养不良对于身体健康的危害一样。
Moral malnutrition and mental intoxication are harmful to one's heart, just as the body's nutrition is harmful to the health of the body.
19、儿童有着他自己的人格，他自身具有创造精神的美和尊严。这种美和尊严是永远不能磨灭的，所以他的纯洁而非常敏感的心灵需要我们最审慎的爱护。
Children have their own personality, he has created the spirit of the United States and dignity. The beauty and dignity is never forgotten, so his purity and very sensitive heart we need the most prudent care.
20、我们都知道，儿童发展的时期是一生最重要的时期。道德的营养不良和精神的中毒对人的心灵的危害正如身体的营养不良对于身体健康的危害一样。所以，儿童教育是人类展重要的一个问题。
We all know that the period of children's development is the most important period of life. Moral malnutrition and mental intoxication are harmful to one's heart as well as the health of the body. So, children's education is an important issue of human development.
21、 请帮助我，让我自己做。
Help me do it by myself.
