“Children become like the things they love.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, p. 101
“The child’s nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind , p. 83. I...
“Special care should be shown for the psychic life of the newborn child. If it already has such a life at birth, how much greater will this ...
“ It was really a very simple thing, after, — it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind ...
“It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders — without effort and quite unconsciously.” — Maria Monte...
“Thinkers in every age have been struck by the astonishing fact that a being which at first does not exist, should end by becoming a man or ...
“…no one can do for the child the work he has to do to build the man he is making.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind , p. 30. If ...
“It may be said that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his psychic life. Simply by cont...
“But although education is recognized as one of the ways of raising mankind, it is nevertheless, still and only, thought of as an educati...
