In our Montessori schools, little children spontaneously reveal aptitudes for doing things that we never taught them and of which we would never have...

The mind of the child takes elements from the environment and incarnates them into his being. This does not happen through heredity, but is the...

I have seen that children can do much for the community. In the child is much knowledge, much wisdom. If we do not profit from it, it is only because...

... the child always chooses something hard to do. This is something we would never have thought of.

When the child has acquired this independence his relation to the adult is changed. He is sweeter and calmer. He no longer lives under a repression...

If a child meets certain difficulties in his work the other children never spontaneously help him.... But if there is an accident when help is really...

...at birth all children are alike, and need the same treatment or education during the stage of embryonic growth, of mental incarnation.

The history of the movement shows that the same kind of education, though with some adaptations, is applicable to all grades of society and to all...