Children Quote by 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

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

“Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys…

— Raymond S. Moore

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

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play…

— Bruno Bettelheim

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

— Trevor Eissler

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their…

— Christopher Lasch

Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask…

— Kim Swift

“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

When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him…

— Maria Montessori