Maria Montessori

"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence."

"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."

"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.'"