We ourselves have lost this deep and vital sensitiveness, and in the presence of children in whom we see it reviving, we feel as if we were watching a...

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 teacher's happy task is to show them the path to perfection, furnishing the means and removing the obstacles, beginning with those which she...

The teacher must believe that this child before her will show his true nature when he finds a piece of work that attracts him. So what must she look...

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work. She must free herself...

The first step an intending Montessori teacher must take is to prepare herself. For one thing, she must keep her imagination alive; for while, in the...

The little child who persists in his exercises, concentrated and absorbed, is obviously elaborating the constant man, the man of character, he who...

She must learn that it is not easy to help, nor even, perhaps, to stand still and watch. Even when helping and serving the children, she must not...

The teacher keeps watch so that a child who is absorbed in his work is not disturbed by one of his companions. This office of being the ‘guardian...

The teacher becomes the keeper and custodian of the environment. She attends to this instead of being distracted by the children's restlessness. From...