Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.
Maria MontessoriTwo things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
Maria MontessoriA child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
Maria MontessoriAt birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
Maria Montessori