"...intervention, however, is almost always found to be unnecessary, for the children see their companions at work and thus are encouraged to imitate them." Maria Montessori, Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, Schocken Books, 1965, p. 69.
“It is not the professor who applies psychology to children, it is the children themselves who teach psychology to the professor.” Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, The Theosophical Publishing House, Madras, India, 1949, p. 4
"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.
"But let us seek to implant in the soul the self-sacrificing spirit of the scientist with the reverent love of the disciple of Christ, and we shall have prepared the spirit of the teacher. From the child itself will he learn how to perfect himself as an educator." Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.13, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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