Importance of Education

"What makes Montessori education so special is that its objective is to help human beings with the enormous task of inner construction necessary to pass from childhood to full adulthood. Education is an essential aspect of human development. We cannot become fully adult without it. The level of formation the individual personality can reach depends on it."

Mario M. Montessori, Jr. Education for Human Development, p97

Awareness

A child who gathers in the smallest details must look upon us with a certain degree of contempt since he is unaware of the mental syntheses which we are constantly making . He must as a consequence look upon us as being somewhat inefficient, as individuals who do not see well. From a child's viewpoint we are not very exact.

Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood, p 69