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.

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.