Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire ‘to make him learn things’, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.” Dr. Maria Montessori, Spontaneous Activity in Education, pg. 185 With your classroom routines and norms adequately reviewed and in place (You did …
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“The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation for science and the preparation for sanctity should form a new soul, for the attitude of the teacher should be at once positive, scientific and spiritual.” Dr. Maria Montessori,’ The Advanced …
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“Our aim is not only to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize,but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.” Maria Montessori, To Educate the Human Potential, P. 11 Do you love the start of a new school year? The anticipation of a new …
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[The Teacher] must first love and understand the universe. She must therefore prepare herself and work at it.” Maria Montessori, From Childhood to Adolescence pg. 20 Are you plagued by the articles about the danger of being too busy? Just try Google-ing “the danger of being too busy” and you’ll be inundated with warnings of the health and …
“It is a psychic necessity that the child explores the environment; it satisfies his spirit.” Maria Montessori, The 1946 London Lectures p. 134 When I faced a group of engaged Montessori students for the first time, I was flabbergasted! I’d never witnessed such enthusiasm, curiosity, and all-out abandon. They embraced the musical experience my quintet …
There is not just a need for happier schools, schools where the children are free to do as they like or schools where they use certain materials: education today needs reform. If education is to prepare man for the present, and the immediate future, he will need a new orientation towards the environment. Maria Montessori, …
