Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Discipline must come through liberty.”
- Source
- The Montessori Method
- Date
- 1912
- English wording
- Anne E. George — Translator · from Italian
Meaning of “Discipline must come through liberty.”
The short principle contrasts self-directed active discipline with discipline produced only through externally imposed immobility or coercive classroom control.
Where does it come from?
The Montessori Method, Chapter V, “Discipline,” printed page 86, Anne E. George translation, Project Gutenberg #39863. “Discipline must come through liberty” introduces Montessori’s account of active discipline and self-mastery in contrast with enforced immobility. It remains early-twentieth-century educational theory rather than a context-free rule for every classroom or child.
