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

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

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

The child will reveal himself through work.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

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.