1. “Free choice is one of the highest of all mental processes.” ― Maria Montessori
2. “Adults move because their will directs them. The small child is urged by nature.” ― Maria Montessori
3. “Joy is the evidence of inner growth.” ― Maria Montessori
4. “Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.” ― Maria Montessori
5. “When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.” ― Maria Montessori
6. “These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.” ― Maria Montessori
7. “Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silentas a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.” ― Maria Montessori
8. “This is the hope we have—a hope in a new humanity that will come from this new education, an education that is collaboration of man and the universe….” ― Maria Montessori
9. “Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.” ― Maria Montessori
10. “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” ― Maria Montessori
11. “Teach by teaching, not by correcting.” ― Maria Montessori
12. “The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion that education must start from birth.” ― Maria Montessori
13. “Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.” ― Maria Montessori
14. “By the age of three the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being.” ― Maria Montessori
15. “What the hand does, the mind remembers.” ― Maria Montessori
16. “No one can be free unless he is independent.” ― Maria Montessori
17. “It is necessary that the child teach himself, and then the success is great.” ― Maria Montessori
18. “Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.” ― Maria Montessori
19. “We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.” ― Maria Montessori
20. “The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.” ― Maria Montessori
21. “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
22. “The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.” ― Maria Montessori
23. “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” ― Maria Montessori
24. “Education is the best weapon for peace.” ― Maria Montessori
25. “Of all things love is the most potent.” ― Maria Montessori
