If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

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.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.