Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.
Maria MontessoriPreventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Maria MontessoriSocial grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.
Maria MontessoriOrder is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
Maria MontessoriThere is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.
Maria Montessori