Carl Jung once said, “One looks back with appreciation at the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude at those who have touched our human feelings. The curriculum is the necessary raw material, but the heat is the vital element for the plant to grow for the child's soul." (Jung) Children are born ready to learn and are eager to know everything about everything. Learning and developing these concepts helps build the foundation for the rest of your life. However, as a child you thrive on human relationships and learn from what teachers, parents, and other adults around you do. Positive role models will influence the child positively while negative relationships will influence the child negatively. This is why early childhood teachers and the relationships they build with their students are so important. Many theorists have studied children, their behavior, and why they do the things they do. Most theorists come to the conclusion that we learn by doing practical activities and physically participating with others in activities. One of these theorists was Maria Montessori. Montessori believed and taught that children thrived through physical learning. He believed that children were human beings and could do things on their own if they were taught correctly. “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first, the period from birth to six years. Because that is the moment in which man's intelligence itself, his greatest instrument, is formed." (Montessori) According to the American Montessori society, Maria Montessori observed children and discovered that they actually learn "through sensorimotor activities, working with materials that develop their cognitive abilities... in the middle of paper.... ..achieve successfully social and emotional well-being. Teachers have the supreme power in shaping a child and better preparing him for the future. Children are so precious and need to be cared for by someone equally precious. An unknown author once stated that “A hundred years from now, it won't matter what job I had, or what kind of car I drove, or how much money was in my bank account, but that I made a difference in the life of a child." Helping a child grow socially and emotionally is a powerful and successful feeling and knowing that you have personally made a difference is nice. As a teacher it becomes your job to recognize that these children are their own people, they are independent, they have certain desires and needs and they love attention. It is your job to recognize this and use their needs to transform them into healthy people and citizens.