Environment is undoubtedly a secondary factor in the phenomena of life; it can modify in that it can help or hinder, but it can never create.
Maria MontessoriAt about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
Maria MontessoriThe secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.
Maria Montessori