Everyone has a special inclination or special secret, hidden vocation. It may be modest but it is certainly useful.

Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child

Cosmic education seeks to offer the young, at the appropriate sensitive period, the stimulation and help their need to develop their minds, their vision and their creative power, whatever the level or range of the personal contributions may be.

Mario Montessori Jr, Education for Human Development

He must be helped to feel independent in his own world and to develop the vision that will help him as an adult to maintain the environment in such a way that the unending and gigantic cosmic task of man can continue.

Mario Montessori Jr, Education for Human Development

Man is an agent of change. He has the urge not only to adapt to the environment but to change it as he goes along and as his needs and his imagination dictate. This is the cosmic task of man: to continue the work of creation.

Mario Montessori Jr, Education for Human Development