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.
“We believe we greatly develop the child’s imagination by leading him to believe as true things that are fantastic […] But how could what is the fruit of our imagination develop the imagination of children? We alone imagine — they do not: they believe, they do not imagine. […] Is it credulity that we wish to develop in our children […]?” — Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method