Maria Montessori

Discipline must come through liberty.

The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.