Drawn from my three-year immersion for the film Let the Child Be the Guide, my research, and my Montessori teacher training (AMI), this quote is an excerpt from a thematic selection I compiled to remove the primary obstacle to education: our adult prejudices. This post presents one of the themes from this collection, designed to transform, step by step, our gaze upon the child.
“To enlarge the world in which he is bored must be the first step of education. To free him from the chains that prevent him from moving forward is the fundamental technique.” — Maria Montessori, The Formation of Man