The child gives us a beautiful lesson – that in order to form and maintain our intelligence, we must use our hands.
Maria Montessori
The 1946 London Lectures, p. 153
It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.
Maria Montessori
The 1946 London Lectures, p. 150
Children have an absorbent mind. They absorb knowledge from the environment without fatigue. [...] This is the moment in the life of man when we can do something for the betterment of humanity and further brotherhood.
