Awakening Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come…

— Maria Montessori

“Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's…

— Paula Polk Lillard

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the…

— Maria Montessori

“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be…

— Paula Polk Lillard

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...

— Katharine Graham

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather…

— Maria Montessori

The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from…

— Maria Montessori

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm…

— Connie Smith

“Montessori is about a kid with a stick, digging a hole in the mud—hands dirty, engaged, fascinated, uninterrupted.”

— Trevor Eissler

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Anonymous