A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better.

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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.

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

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.