"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." ― Maria Montessori Topic(s): Time More From Maria Montessori "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being." "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." More In Time "Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."― Edward Everett Hale "I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."― E. O. Wilson