“It is not the happiness of the child that is the aim, but that he become the constructor of man, in
We are hard-wired to want to protect our children, to care for them and to want to keep them from suffering. When our babies cry, our...
“It is no good to cut life in two and to move limbs by sport and then move the head by reading a boo
Be still. Stop wiggling. Slow down. Sit down. So often, we associate children’s immobility with their obedience, as though the way you...
“He can’t walk, we carry him; he can’t work, we do it for him: on the threshold of life, we give him
When Montessorians talk about protecting the child's spiritual development, we are not talking about issues of religion or theology. In...