One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria MontessoriChildhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
Maria MontessoriIt is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.
Maria Montessori