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The Montessori Method, p.93, Schocken Books, 1964.
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"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.
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"In the old method, the proof of discipline...is in the immobility and silence of the child."   Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, p.84, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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"Today we hold the pupils in school, restricted by those instruments so degrading to body and spirit, the desk-- and material prizes and punishments.  Our aim in all this is to reduce them to the discipline of immobility and silence,-- to lead them, --where?  Far too often toward no definite end."  Maria Montessori, p. 26, The Montessori Method, Schocken Books, 1964.
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"...prizes and punishments are...the instrument of slavery for the spirit."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.21, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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"Prizes and punishments are every-ready and efficient aids to the master who must force into a given attitude of mind and body those who are condemned to be his listeners."  Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, Chapter 1, p.21, Schocken Books, Inc., 1964.
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