The Discovery of the Child Quotes

“The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.”
― Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child

“A teacher simply assists him at the beginning to get his bearings among so many different things and teaches him the precise use of each of them; that is to say, she introduces him to the ordered and active life of the environment. But then she leaves him free in the choice and execution of his work.”
― Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child: formerly entitled "The Montessori Method"