Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
Maria MontessoriThe child is an enigmaโฆ He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.
Maria MontessoriLet us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
Maria MontessoriWhen mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when we think of intellectual activity, we always imagine people sitting still, motionless. But 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.
Maria Montessori