It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.
Maria MontessoriThe real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.
Maria MontessoriThe child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.
Maria MontessoriA humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.
Maria Montessori