Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Discipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.” ~ Maria Montessori (1870-1952) Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, the Montessori methodSource: The Montessori Method, 1912