Food for Thought

"When he is at the school we adults have chosen for him, he is given
a medal and we say, 'What a clever teacher he has.'

"But it is the small child who is really a living miracle! This is
what the teacher should see in the child: a pupil who has learnt in
such a fashion that the teacher herself could not learn better...This
is a deep and mysterious fact."

-- Dr. Maria Montessori

The Absorbant Mind, pages 102-103