It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.

There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

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.

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.