“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”
"The things he sees are not just remembered; the form a part of his soul."
- Maria Montessori
Self-awareness
"Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul."
- Maria Montessori
Happiness
"The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn."
- Maria Montessori
Motivation
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"
- Maria Montessori
Success
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher … is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’"
- Maria Montessori
Success
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education