The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.