“Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.”

- The XIVth Dalai Lama

namc montessori cosmic education common needs of humans spiritual material

As All Saints’ Day comes and goes and we enter the season of thanksgiving and winter celebrations of light, it is right that we use this time of impending darkness to reflect on what was. The veneration of ancestors is practiced in many parts of the world, with people believing that the spirit of their departed loved ones can intercede in the affairs of those still living.

In the Montessori environment, children make connections with humans throughout the ages by learning that all people have the same common needs, regardless of when or where they lived. Maria Montessori divided the common needs of people into two categories: spiritual and material.

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