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.
“Today, in order to free the child and bring his capacities to light, the great difficulty consists not in discovering a form of education that brings about results, but in overcoming the prejudices of the adult toward the child. […] These prejudices are so universal that it is difficult to make them recognised as such.” — Maria Montessori, The Formation of Man