This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
Maria MontessoriThe essence of independence is to be able to do something for oneโs self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.
Maria MontessoriTo let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
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