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.
“Fatigue comes from boredom. For the child to work intensely and joyfully, without needing to be pushed, he must above all be interested.” — Maria Montessori, cit. in Hélène Lubienska de Lenval, The Montessori Method