all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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.’
Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Maria Montessori

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori

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

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

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
John Dewey

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Jean Piaget

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean‑Jacques Rousseau