Movements with Intelligent Purpose, 4th Lecture on the 10th International Training Course, London, 12 April 1921

Montessori argues here that movements considered solely from the point of view of a physiological fact do not really exist in life; all our movements have a purpose. The characteristics of the child, when he is left free to his own spontaneity, show that he is led by an inner force, which is an intellectual force, to perform various actions.