“It seems to him, at this stage, a particularly vital matter that everything in his environment should be kept in its accustomed place; and...
“When the child is given freedom to move about in a world of objects, he is naturally inclined to perform the tasks necessary for his develo...
When I began my Montessori career, finding Montessori ideas and lessons on the Internet was challenging to say the least. My colleagues and ...
" When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart. " – Magda Gerber In our continuing...
“Special care should be shown for the psychic life of the newborn child. If it already has such a life at birth, how much greater will this ...
“Thinkers in every age have been struck by the astonishing fact that a being which at first does not exist, should end by becoming a man or ...
“…no one can do for the child the work he has to do to build the man he is making.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind , p. 30. If ...
“It may be said that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his psychic life. Simply by cont...
“In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children…studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grad...
“All too often children’s spontaneous active play has been transformed into passive audience participation.” — David Elkind, The Power of Pl...
Being able to observe, recall, and sequence events is an important life skill. In sequencing, we learn about patterns in relationships a...
“But although education is recognized as one of the ways of raising mankind, it is nevertheless, still and only, thought of as an educati...
Have you ever played peekaboo with an infant or toddler? I love to hear that gurgle of laughter every time the person hiding appears. Why...
“We know how to find pearls in the shells of oysters, gold in the mountains and coal in the bowels of the earth, but we are unaware of the s...
“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...
The Montessori environment is created to develop focus, stamina, and motivation to learn through the use of a well-prepared environment ...
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“ Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously car...
When my son was around three years old, he suddenly became aware of words and their spelling. It seemed every time I turned around he was as...
While the approaching holiday season is full of hustle and bustle, it is also a perfect time to step back and reflect on the many people tha...
