In our Montessori schools, little children spontaneously reveal aptitudes for doing things that we never taught them and of which we would never have...
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A three-year-old educated according to Montessori pedagogy, becomes master of his hand and undertakes with joy a variety of human activities. These...
We have observed that the child works willingly, we might even say he throws himself upon his work like a starving man offered a meal after four or...
It is through appropriate work and activities that the character of the child is transformed. Work influences his development in the same way that...
We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed of character traits; his...
I have observed that the child, on condition that he is granted the freedom to work, learns, becomes cultured, absorbs knowledge and gains...
Once the teacher understands that mysterious powers exist within the child, and that these reveal themselves spontaneously through the child’s...
The school must be invigorated by a new spirit, animated by a wise teacher, wiser than any other human being because he knows and respects the laws...
The teacher should possess this same faith [in the child]. In fact, he should become imbued by it so that he may contemplate with the same hope any...