Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Maria Montessori

This is a picture of Maria Montessori and some of her writings. She looks like someone my Grandma and Nana would have coffee with. I love this picture. It is very comforting to me.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants - doing nothing but living and walking about - came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning: would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning. This is the path he follows. He learns everything without knowing he is learning it, and in doing so passes little from the unconscious to the conscious, treading always in the paths of joy and love.

1 comment:

Marianne said...

That's how I think...everytrhing is new and exciting to a kid, even if it's nothing exciting to adults. Kids are always picking up EVERYTHING, even when you're not "teaching". I hope you can find a preschool for her. Good luck!!!