Maria Montessori

"Centre for Montessori Studies , Roma Tre University"

"The Centre for Montessori Studies in her native home in Chiaravalle, Italy"

"The peril of servilism and dependence lies not only in that "useless consuming of life," which leads to helplessness, but in the development of individual traits which indicate all too plainly a regre…"

"It seems as though a new epoch were in preparation, a truly human epoch, and as though the end had almost come of those evolutionary periods which sum up the history of the heroic struggles of humanit…"

"The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator."

"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."

"Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society"

"Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve…"