We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Children become like the things they love.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

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.

There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with.