“A child’s work is
to create the man he will become.
An adult works to perfect the environment
but the child works to perfect himself.”
– Maria Montessori
“The most important period of life
is not the age of university studies,
but the first one, the period from birth to six.
For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself,
his greatest implement, is being formed.
… At no other age
has the child greater need of an intelligent help,
and any obstacle that impedes his creative work
will lessen the chance he has
of achieving perfection.”
– Maria Montessori
“… it is not true that I ‘invented’
what is called the Montessori method.
I have studied the child;
I have taken what the child has given me
and expressed it,
and that is what is called
the Montessori method.”
– Maria Montessori
“I never teach my pupils;
I only attempt to provide the conditions
in which they can learn.”
– Albert Einstein
“What we want is
to see the child in pursuit of knowledge,
and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
– George Bernard Shaw