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 must obey nature. One often hears: ‘I obey God,’ but do we even know what God asks of us? Nature builds human beings. It is like a religion in the sense that each of us possesses a soul that must obey the laws that will help it form its person and its intelligence during childhood.” — Maria Montessori, The Child is the Future of Mankind