Maria Montessori

Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.

Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.