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“The only language that man learns perfectly is acquired at this period of childhood when no one can teach him.  
Not only that, but no matter what help and assistance he will get later in life if he tries to learn a new language,
he will not be able to speak it with the same exactitude as he does the one acquired in childhood.”  
Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, The Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, India, 1949, p. 5
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