Excerpt: “Dr. Maria Montessori had the intuition of the fact that one of the first tendencies of the newborn child is to build something within himself which enables him not only to put himself in relation with his surroundings, but which, for the rest of his life, acts as sort of an inner compass related to all sorts of things including that other tendency which embodies one of the most powerful urges of man and helps him to find whatever he requires to satisfy his needs: exploration.” Pamphlet