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" The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage. "

Maria Montessori

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" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "

Maria Montessori

" When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. "

Maria Montessori

" My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age. "

Maria Montessori

" All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses. "

Maria Montessori

" The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic. "

Maria Montessori

" Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp. "

Maria Montessori

" The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality. "

Maria Montessori

" It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech. "

Maria Montessori

" Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean. "

Maria Montessori

" Indeed there are powers in the small child that are far greater than is generally realized, because it is in this period that the construction, the building-up, of man takes place, for at birth, psychically speaking, there is nothing at all - zero! "

Maria Montessori

" The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. "

Maria Montessori

" There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society. "

Maria Montessori

" The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. "

Maria Montessori

" We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. "

Maria Montessori

" Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm. "

Maria Montessori

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

Maria Montessori

" Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. "

Maria Montessori

" Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization. "

Maria Montessori

" The child who concentrates is immensely happy. "

Maria Montessori

" It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born. "

Maria Montessori

" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "

Maria Montessori

" The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections. "

Maria Montessori

" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

Maria Montessori

" Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! "

Maria Montessori

" We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through. "

Maria Montessori

" All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity. "

Maria Montessori

" Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading. "

Maria Montessori

" If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. "

Maria Montessori

" The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man. "

Maria Montessori

" It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted. "

Maria Montessori