Maria Montessori Life Quotations

Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'