The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
Maria MontessoriThe child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.
Maria MontessoriThe child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
Maria MontessoriBeauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.
Maria MontessoriHe who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.
Maria Montessori