Children Quote by Paula Polk Lillard

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

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

“My experiences as a Montessori teacher have led me to realize that our goal as educators is not to impart facts to children as…

— Elizabeth White

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

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

— Katharine Graham

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

— Trevor Eissler

“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 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

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

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

“After decades of research about how children learn best, here’s what we’ve discovered: Children learn through play. It’s the work of childhood. Children learn…

— Laurel Schmidt

Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than…

— C. Sommerville