Maria Montessori Quotes

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.