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.
“We comfort ourselves with the illusion of having reached the heights of philanthropy with our social charity made of miserable scraps, which we moreover reserve exclusively for adults. We give some people food, others unemployment benefits, and others still the privilege of freedom of speech, but none of these expedients can do much against the ills of society. Let us therefore begin by bringing into schools a little of the social progress of which we are so proud!” — Maria Montessori, To Educate the Human Potential