Maria Montessori said this quote

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.

~ Maria Montessori

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

~ Maria Montessori

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

~ Maria Montessori

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

~ Maria Montessori