Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

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.

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.