Joy, feeling oneโs own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
Maria MontessoriThere are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers.
Maria MontessoriOnly when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
Maria MontessoriThe greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
Maria Montessori