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 take refuge in a world of illusion and fantasy is in reality a form of degradation. Is not the nobility of man precisely his power to conceive, through intelligence, things that he will then be able to bring into reality? […] By acquiring the habit of taking refuge in pure imagination, one quickly ends up no longer being able to adapt to external circumstances.” — Maria Montessori, International Course 1934