We call it material for the development of the senses, but sense development is merely the consequence of the urge to do something with the hands. The...

There is an age when children play; we call it the age of play. But what is play if not to do those things which entail the movement of the hands...

Movement of the hand is essential. Little children revealed that the development of the mind is stimulated by the movement of the hands. The hand is...

Today children are given toys; that at least is something. Even if they are not fundamentally the right things, at least they fulfil the need for...

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

In the old way the teacher made the children learn the multiplication tables by heart and then taught them to do the sums. Today children handle rods...

We make learning difficult for children by trying to teach them by means of grown-up methods; the natural and happy way for children to learn, however...

It is on this principle of the development of the child through handling interesting objects that I have built up my method of education.

All work is noble, the only ignoble thing is to live without working.

These children reveal to us the most vital need of their development, saying: “Help me to do it alone!”