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.
“In traditional schools, children are given tasks that do not interest them because they are too easy. We must study and discover the limits of the difficulties the child is able to handle and discover the level of difficulty that best maintains his interest.” — Maria Montessori, Education and Peace