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.
“If we were to abandon not only the proper name but also the common concept of method, replacing them with another denomination — if we were to speak of […] ‘a means of liberating oneself from the oppression due to the old prejudices conveyed by education’ — then everything would become clear! […] What matters is that the defence of the child, the scientific recognition of his nature, and the social proclamation of his rights take the place of the various preconceived ideas about education.” — Maria Montessori, The Formation of Man