Favorite Quotes

Spontaneity:
"Education…is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
Maria Montessori

Innovation and Tradition:
"(One's) mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reality:
"Reality, as always happens in children's hands, reveals once again its infinite potential for transformation."
Loris Malaguzzi 

Life Lessons:
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
Yogi Berra

Creativity:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein

 Creativity and Freedom:
"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known."
Loris Malaguzzi   

Inclusiveness:
"In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength."
Maya Angelou

Self-Directed Learning:
"It is in childhood that a person learns to develop, guide, and direct himself on the way of life."
Maria Montessori

Nature Study:
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.
It will never fail you."
Frank Lloyd Wright

Outdoor Play / Nature Study:
"This (out-of-door play) is all play to the children, but the mother is doing invaluable work; she is training their powers of observation and expression, increasing their vocabulary and their range of ideas by giving them the name and the uses of an object at the right moment,--when they ask, 'What is it?'
and 'What is it for?'"
Charlotte Mason