The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.
Maria MontessoriWhen the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.
Maria MontessoriA child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.
Maria MontessoriEducation, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
Maria Montessori