"We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At particular epochs of their life, children reveal an intense and extraordinary interest in certain objects and exercises, which one might look for in vain at a later age....Such attention is not the result of mere curiosity; it is more like a burning passion."
~Maria Montessori~
"The adult works to perfect his environment, whereas the child works to perfect himself, using the environment as the means....The child is a being in a constant state of transformation."
~E.M. Standing~
