The child must be born without any language at all so that he can take in the language of his environment. This is the work of the first two years of...

All over the world children achieve the same things at the same age. They begin to walk at the same time, begin to utter syllables at the same time.

We must study the psychology of each different period of life. In doing this we cannot give an idea of linear progression. There are different...

In studying the Montessori Method we go straight to a very interesting central point: the extraordinary manifestation of the psychic life of the...

We must proceed, not on the basis of our own ideas or on our own prejudices, not on preconceived methods, but by observing the child.

For the first time we realized that the young child has powers which are lost as it grows older. It is a matter of the evolution of each life...

We must study the profound and mysterious psychology of the little child, observe its development, and find what we can do to help.

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...