Maria Montessori said:

• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
   
• Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world"
   
• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
   
• If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
   
• If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
   
• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
   
• The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
   
• 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."
   
• To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
   

Anonymous:

• "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
   
• While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

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