This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.