The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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.