"This is the spirit of the men in science, to whom nature freely reveals her secrets, crowning their labours with the glory of discovery." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.9, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
"How shall one obtain discipline in a class of free children?...We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself and can regulate his own conduct." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, p. 86, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
"Thus we have been drawn into a false and narrow way, from which we must free ourselves, if we are to establishe true and living methods for the training of future generations." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.7, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
"There exists, then, the "spirit" of the scientist, a thing far above his mere "mechanical skill," and the scientist is at the height of his achievement when the spirit has triumphed over the mechanism. When he has reached this point, science will receive from him not only new revelations of nature, but philosophic syntheses of pure thought." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.9, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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