Teach by teaching, not by correcting

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

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 greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.