An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
Maria MontessoriIt is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
Maria MontessoriIt is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
Maria MontessoriWe are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Maria MontessoriChildren have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.
Maria Montessori