Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment.

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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