"Again it is this same gift of the intellect which enables us to do what no animal has achieved...to self-consciousness, to the knowledge that 'I am I' and 'You are you,'" p. 205.

"When an entire personality is thus acting in a favorable environment then we call it 'work'," p. 234.

"...which is an expression of choice," p. 236.

"...this is the work of the centre," p. 237.

"These materials facilitate the child's spontaneous mental research," p. 237.

"...possesses both mechanisms," p. 237.

"When this principle of preserving the order in environment is understood and regularly practiced by the children and directress, there springs up what Montessori calls a rapport between the children and their environment," p. 272.

"It goes without saying that one does not explain this to the children," p. 273.

"Next, there is the order to be found in the sensorial materials," p. 273.