Character Quote by Maria Montessori

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of…

— Maria Montessori

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

— Richard Louv

How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant…

— Maria Montessori

For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that…

— Maxine Greene

From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

— Maria Montessori

A child needs freedom within limits.

— Maria Montessori

Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness…

— Bruno Bettelheim

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

— Anonymous

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and…

— Jean Piaget

If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be…

— Rudolf Steiner