Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

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.

Order is ... the true key to rapidity of reaction.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.