Maria Montessori spoke about the child as both a hope and a promise for humanity. She said, “Everyone talks about peace, but no one educates for peace. People educate for competition and this is the beginning of any war. When we educate to cooperate and be in solidarity with one another, that day we will be educating for peace.”

World events in the past few years have highlighted how Montessori’s words still ring true for us today. As administrators and educators dedicated to Montessori education – an education for peace – we hold both a hope for the future and a promise to all children in our schools and early learning centres: to work together in solidarity, to work in cooperation rather than competition, and to care for our environment as well as the individuals within it.