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.
“Most adults are happy when a child’s faults disappear. For them, the child was a vessel full of faults. What then is education? For them, education is a means of removing faults. That is not our idea. Faults are not important. What is essential is the child’s potential, the hidden forces within the child that reveal themselves and have a chance to develop.” — Maria Montessori, Creative Development in the Child, Vol. 2