Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world. Maria Montessori
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. Maria Montessori
"If we consider human intelligence at the period of earliest childhood man does not yet appear to rise above the level of the other animals. All his intellectual faculties are strictly confined to the narrow circle of his physical needs. It is upon himself alone that the operations of his mind are exercised. Education must then seize them and apply them to his instruction, that is to say to a new order of things which has no connection with his first needs. Such is the source of all knowledge, all mental progress, and the creations of the most sublime genius. Whatever degree of probability there may be in this idea, I only repeat it here as the point of departure on the path towards realization of this last aim" (Itard, 1801/1962).
"I had a built in passion that made it important to make a real contribution to the world and fix all of the injustices that existed in the world through teaching and I loved children." Louise Derman-Sparks, Professor Emeritus Pacific Oak College, CA
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