There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.