The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.
Maria MontessoriConventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.
Maria MontessoriImagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
Maria MontessoriChildren are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
Maria MontessoriNo one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.
Maria Montessori