Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.