“A child’s different inner sensibilities enable him to choose from his complex environment what is suitable and necessary for his growth. They make the child sensitive to some things and leave him indifferent to others. When a particular sensitiveness is aroused in a child, it is like a light that shines on some objects but not others, making of them his whole world…
This inner drama of the child is a drama of love.”
- Maria Montessori (The Secret of Childhood, pp. 42-43)