by Dr. Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education
Far too many schools have transformed the process of learning and discovery, which comes naturally to children at birth, into a stressful and often unpleasant experience. We tend to think about schools from a business perspective. We talk incessantly about high standards, competition, and holding children accountable. Somewhere along the way we forgot that schools […]
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by Dr. Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori, MFA
Parts from a Letter Written in 1947 and Sent to all Governments My life has been spent in the research of truth. Through study of children I have scrutinized human nature at its origin both in the East and the West and although it is forty years now since I began my work, childhood still […]
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by Dr. Maria Montessori | Maria Montessori, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Montessori Teachers, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Dr. Maria Montessori’s Education for a New World (re-printed 1989 by Clio Press). Please note that there are some nuances and terms that might, today, be considered ‘politically incorrect.’ However, the spirit behind her words is clearly as relevant today as it was when she wrote it so […]
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