Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

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 interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.