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.
“A society is interesting because of the different types that compose it. A home for the elderly is a lamentable thing; it is inhuman and cruel to put together people of the same age. The same is true for children, because we break the thread of social life by removing what nourishes it. Our schools have shown that children of different ages help one another […] there exists between them a natural mental osmosis.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind