Teach by teaching, not by correcting

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

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 senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.