• Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
• The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
• It is much more difficult to teach a child to feed, wash and dress himself than to do those things for him, "the former is the work of an educator, the latter is the easy and inferior work of a servant.
• Normalization is the single most important result of our work.
• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
• The world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world. They prepare themselves for life by remaining outside of life.
• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

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Guide role in Montessori education:

• Skilled Observer
• Creative Facilitator
• Character Builder

- American Montessori Society