Only 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 MontessoriDiscipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria MontessoriThe word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
Maria Montessori