§ Quick proof

Use correspondence theorem. R/mR/m only has the images of m,Rm, R as ideals which is the zero ideal and the full field.

§ Element based proof

Let x+m≠0x + m \neq 0 be an element in R/mR/m. Since x+m≠0x + m \neq 0, we have xi̸nmx \not in m. Consider (x,m)(x, m). By maximality of mm, (x,m)=R(x, m) = R. Hence there exist elements a,b∈Ra, b \in R such that xa+mb=1xa + mb = 1. Modulo mm, this read xa≡1(mod xa \equiv 1 (\text{mod}~m )). Thus aa is an inverse to xx, hence every nonzero element is invertible.