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.
“Who will ever call us, just as we are about to go to sleep, saying ‘Stay…’? Later he will say, indifferently: ‘Good evening. Good night.’ And who will have such a desire to look at us, simply to see us, while we are eating, while remaining hungry himself? We defend ourselves against this love that will pass. […] What we want is to free ourselves from him, to do what pleases us, not to give up our comforts.” — Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood