Maria Montessori

“Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.”

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

“How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?”

“The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.”

“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.”

“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.”