Joy, feeling oneโs own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Maria MontessoriDiscipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria MontessoriOur goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
Maria MontessoriChildren are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
Maria MontessoriWe shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.
Maria Montessori