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"It is my belief that the thing which we should cultivate in our teachers is more the spirit than the mechanical skill of the scientist; that is, the direction of the preparation should be toward the spirit rather than toward the mechanism."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.9, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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