Montessori is not a curriculum--but there are curricular strands that go from concrete to abstract and then to higher-order thinking and complexity. Particularly, it is not a curriculum that can be mapped or planned because the child must have freedom to explore the network, the web of interrelated ideas that make up Cosmic Education. Montessori education is more like a web and the child, like the spider, can weave this web, which is himself, from any direction and make his knowledge understanding, empathy, gratitude, and compassion more complex, stronger, and more beautiful.
-- From "The NAMTA Journal Vol. 34, No. 1"
蒙特梭利不是課綱——不過當中確實有從具體到抽象，並延伸至更高層次複雜思考的課程走向。這樣的課程無法被規劃制定，因為孩子必須能夠自由探索教育之洋裡面的各個元素。蒙特梭利教育更像是一張網子，孩子則如同從四面八方編網——這張網同時也是他自己——的蜘蛛，建立更加複雜、強壯而美麗的知識、智慧、同理、感恩和熱忱。
——節錄、翻譯自《北美蒙特梭利教師期刊 Vol. 34, No. 1》