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.
“The fundamental quality is knowing how to ‘observe’ […] To observe one must be ‘initiated,’ and knowing how to observe is the true path to science. Because if one does not see the phenomena, it is as if they did not exist. […] The quality of observation includes within itself other secondary qualities, such as patience. […] One who is impatient does not know how to give things their value and grasps nothing but his own impulses and his own satisfactions.” — Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method