During many years of experiment and observation, I discovered that children learn naturally through activity, and that their characters develop...

The teacher shows the child how to use the materials, how to wash himself, but it is the child who handles the material, perfects himself in his...

When the children find themselves in the environment we have prepared, the social contact with other children begins. [...] One might imagine that...

Children develop their brains as well as their bodies through movement, and in the process of concentration, self-discipline, and perseverance with an...

Is it through work alone that a child develops.

Grown-ups think of play as a purposeless occupation that keeps children happy and out of mischief, but actually when children are left to play by...

The child works to become [an adult]; by an inner force which urges him to continual activity he acquires little by little his mature characteristics.

A three-year-old educated according to Montessori pedagogy, becomes a master of his hand and undertakes with a joy a variety of human activities...

The little child’s first movements were instinctive. Now, he acts consciously and voluntarily, and with this comes an awakening of his spirit...

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms...