Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Maria Montessori

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

Maria Montessori

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Maria Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Maria Montessori

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Maria Montessori

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

Maria Montessori

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

Maria Montessori

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Maria Montessori

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

Maria Montessori

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

Maria Montessori

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Maria Montessori

Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.

Maria Montessori