“It may be said that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his psychic life. Simply by continuing to live, the child learns to speak his native tongue. A kind of mental chemistry goes on within him…Impressions do not merely enter his mind; they form it. They incarnate themselves in him. The child creates his own ‘mental muscles,’ using for this what he finds in the world about him. We have named this type of mentality, The Absorbent Mind.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, p. 26.

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With this passage, Dr. Montessori introduces her term absorbent mind, the focus of her book. Children in the first plane of development, from age 0–6, absorb everything that is in their environment. Chapter 3, The Periods of Growth, discusses how the absorbent mind differs from the mind at any other stage of development.

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