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It is our object to train the child for activity, for work, for doing good, and not for immobility or passivity. – Maria Montessori In ...

Since we have the means to guide the child, it is clear that the formation of man is in our hands. We have the possibility ...

“We give the child nourishing food so that his little body may grow, and in just the same way we must provide him with suitable ...

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to “make him learn things,” but by the endeavor to always keep burning within ...

“The mind takes some time to develop interest, to be set in motion, to get warmed up into a subject, to attain a state of ...

The teacher’s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest.  ~ Maria Montessori     Lucas was ...

“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 obedience which is expected of the child both in the home and in the school – and obedience admitting neither of reason nor of ...

 “Intellectual education and moral and social education are the two sides of development.  The first is concerned with intellectual development and the second with the ...

“Through concentration important qualities of character develop. When the concentration passes, the child is inwardly satisfied, he becomes aware of his companions in whom he ...

So I repeat that we cannot give principles by teaching them but by prolonged social experience. (Montessori, 2019) The issue of teasing is something most ...

I had the pleasure of joining Tamara Sheesely Balis and Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning for the Voices in Montessori podcast...