The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.
Maria MontessoriThe child is an enigmaโฆ He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
Maria MontessoriThe land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.
Maria MontessoriTo stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.
Maria MontessoriThe child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.
Maria Montessori