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.
“Everything that bores, discourages, or interrupts, becomes an obstacle that no logical preparation of teaching can overcome. It is therefore the study of the conditions necessary for the development of the spontaneous activities of the individual, and the art of awakening joy and enthusiasm for work, that must be taken as the objective.” — Maria Montessori, Psychogeometry