Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

the experience will have helped them to decide wisely the next time.

The child who is most difficult to manage is, with Montessori training, the child who turns out to be best able to manage himself.

Children grow, mentally, through the right exercise of the senses.

three R’s of everyday education.

the three R’s of the life of the spirit: faith, hope, and charity.

Such commands are quite ineffectual, because they call the child’s attention to us and not to his own acts.

The habit of saying “I will” or “I won’t” in situations that demand the will to decide, “I won’t” or “I will” is an easy habit for a little child to form and a most dangerous one, morally. It is seldom a self-formed but a parent-stimulated habit.

Go as you please, do as you wish, play with whatever you like—only be careful not to hurt
the work or the body of any other little one,”

see with his fingers.

Every little child is born with a longing to feel line and form, not perhaps for Fame’s, but for Knowledge’s sake, and we crush the longing when we say “don’t touch.”