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Maria Montessori describes the child with warmth and the exactness of a scientist. She also discusses the array of materials and techniques needed to release his learning potential.
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The progress made in recent years in the care and education of children has been so amazingly rapid that it is more to be attributed to a general awakening of conscience than to a rise in the standard of living. Read the first page
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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful
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When I bought this book I was looking for books by John Holt and stumbled upon it “accidentally”. Well, that’s providence for you because as it turns out, this is the book that changed my life. It changed my perspective on child rearing. It enabled me to understand why my two year old did what she did. Things that made me want to tear my hair out and scream “WHY???” became as easy to understand as melting ice!
There are developmental phases that children go through. Montessori presents these phases clearly and makes them easy to understand. Her work is based on observation, thoughtfulness, a deep understanding and love for children as people and more observation. She traveled the world and made the same observations as regards the periods children pass through.
They are sensitive periods and when a child has acquired the ability or understanding then the sensitivity for it passes. There are sensitive periods for external order (pertaining to the environment) and internal order (pertaining to the child’s own body), for language acquisition, for walking, for exploration with the hand, etc. This book helped me to understand my child and prepare for the next one that I was carrying. I was so inspired by her dedication and purity in sharing her work with the rest of the world that I ended up taking a diploma course in Montessori education.
My children (5 of them now) have only benefited from my heightened sensitivity to their needs. Montessori taught me to look behind their outward acts for the psychological foundation upon which they are built. In this way I came to understand my children (an ongoing process) and thus change myself (another ongoing process), working through my own emotional baggage which is ultimately the source of conflict between adults and children. I think this book can change anybody’s life who is open and ready for learning and transformation.
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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This is an important work because it highlights what is wrong with common trends in parenting. You learn that the parent is there to foster a positive environment in which a child can thrive. It is not complicated. The child will show you what they need and when they need it. This book helps you to recognize what the child's needs are, but from the child's perspective. I found it to be a breath of fresh air and wished my parents had read it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book as my children have just started at a Montessori nursery and I wanted to know more about the theory behind the teaching methods. This book is Maria Montessori's original text and was first printed in 1966. As such, it is written in a very long winded and old fashioned way, with lots of referral to the bible and the "souls of the little children" etc. It is interesting, but you have to wade through a lot of surpurflous background info to be able to dig out any actual coherent info about the Montessori methods themselves. It also obviously pertains to the time it was written in (e.g. the early 20th Century), so a lot of the contextural stuff is irrelevant now. There are probably more accessible and up to date books about the Montessori method out there, if you just want something that is relevant to today.
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