The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

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.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

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.

The child endures all things.

We must help the child to act for himself, will for himself, think for himself; this is the art of those who aspire to serve the spirit.