The discoveries of Maria Montessori are valuable for anyone living and working with children in any situation. There have been Montessori birth attendants and Assistants to Infancy in Europe since 1947. There are Montessori classes for children up to age eighteen within public and private schools. Many parents are using Dr. Montessori's discoveries to raise their children at home. The task of the teacher becomes that of preparing a series of motives of cultural activity, spread over a specially prepared environment, and then refraining from obtrusive interference.
Human teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servants help the master.
Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and to the rising of a New Man who will not be a victim of events, but will have the clarity of vision to direct and shape the future of human society. Maria Montessori, Education for a New World.