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.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.