Maria Montessori
“In the care of the newborn, and to do everything one can for him, you have to keep his psychic life very present in mind ... just as the physical embryo needs its own special environment, such the mother's womb, in which to grow, so this spiritual embryo needs to be protected in its external environment, animated, warm with love, rich with nourishment, where everything is done to accommodate and nothing to hamper.”