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.
“Whoever interrupts children in their occupations to make them learn certain predetermined things, who makes them stop studying arithmetic in order to move on to geography, and so forth, thinking it important to direct their culture, confuses the means with the end and destroys the person for the sake of vanity.” — Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method