“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.” – Dr. Maria Montessori
Thank you, Beth S., Terry M., Carol, Joy R., Carol M., Haley R., Ally G., Alicia J., Leigh Ann P., Samanthan I., Savannah D., Faith O. and anyone that I may have inadvertently missed. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your kindness, support, encouragement, and thougfulness. Your love and generoity have meant more to me than words can express, and i am deeply grateful for each of you.

“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.” – Dr. Maria Montessori

“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.” – Dr. Maria Montessori

Education should include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual. - Maria Montessori

The Miseducation of Maria Montessori

Montessori schools in Portland, Tigard shutter after teachers launch union effort

“Of all things, love is the most potent.” —Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the chlld. - Dr. Maria

“If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.” – Dr. Maria Montessori

“We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

“We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. - Dr. Maria Montessori

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

When words fail us, we can still open our hearts and wish well. - unknown

Today, may each of us try to tbe the love and hope the world so badly needs, and may we rememeber to be as kind as we can to each other. - Naeu Hoffman

We can't heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, and an act of kindness. - Lori Wilde

“Of all things, love is the most potent.” - Maria Montessori

Works of love are always works of peace. - unknown

The meaning of a hug is; I don't sense a danger in you, I'm not afraid to be next to you, I can relax, feel at home, there is someone who protects and understands me. It is believed that when we hug someone willingly, our life is extended for a day. - Paulo Coelho, Elif

Within the child lies the fate of the future. - Maria Montessori

The tendencies which we stigmatize as evil in little children.. are often merely those which cause annoyance to us adults when, not understanding their needs, we try to prevent their every movement, their every attempt to gain experience for themselves in the world. - Dr. Maria Montessori

Of all things, love is the most potent. - Maria Montessori

“The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

We shall walk together on this path called life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. - Maria Montessori

To be alive is the strange and wondrous miracle we forget. - Atticus