the secret of childhood maria montessori

Forced study brought on fear, weariness, and nervous exhaustion.

Such an environment provides the foundation for an integrated life. When a person is oriented in such an environment, he can direct his activity to the attainment of specific goals.

It thus makes a whole of an environment in which the several parts are mutually dependent.

It is a kind of inner sense that distinguishes the relationships between various objects rather than the objects themselves.

The child was not interested in finding the object, but in.

At such a time everything is easy all is life and enthusiasm.

It is this sensibility which enables a child to come into contact with the external world in a particularly intense manner.

These are like a beam that lights interiorly or a battery that furnishes energy.

A child learns to adjust himself and make acquisitions in his sensitive periods.

Like many other things that lie hidden in the subconscious, the child’s state has been considered simply as a fact without any particular significance.

Philosophers have always been intrigued with the state of a child so helpless after birth, but up to the present teachers and physicians have been too little concerned with it.

But even if we limit ourselves to more obvious and basic concepts, we must admit that there is a play of instincts within a child not only with respect to its physical growth and nourishment but also with respect to various psychic operations.

Proof of a child’s psychic life may be found in the distinction that is made between its conscious and its subconscious activities.

If we understand by “education” a child’s psychic rather than its intellectual development, we may truly say, that a child’s education should begin at birth.“The Secret of Childhood” By Maria Montessori The Spiritual Embryo

The secret of childhood maria montessori