Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.
Maria MontessoriWhatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.
Maria MontessoriPreventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Maria MontessoriWe are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Maria Montessori...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.
Maria Montessori