To place perspective on the Montessori Method which began to evolve in 1907, it was then legal to put children in the mail! And of course children were also to be seen and not heard! She actually liberated the invisible child from this bondage of ignorance and elevated them to their proper place in society by helping others to see their fully formed personalities with such limitless potential! Thank you Dr. Montessori! It was January 6th (1907), when the first school was opened for small, normal children of between three and six years of age. I cannot say on my methods, for these did not yet exist. But in the school that was opened my method was shortly to come into being. On that day there was nothing to be seen but about fifty wretchedly poor children, rough and shy in manner, many of them crying, almost all the children of illiterate parents, who had been entrusted to my care... They were tearful, frightened children, so shy that it was impossible to get them to speak; their faces were expressionless, with bewildered eyes as though they had never seen anything in their lives.... It would be interesting to know the original circumstances that enabled these children to undergo such an extraordinary transformation, or rather, that brought about the appearance of new children, whose souls revealed themselves with such radiance as to spread a light through the whole world. Indeed it was as though this radiance had been caught in a stream of consciousness, for a mere six months after the opening of the Casa dei Bambini, people from all walks of life, from every continent came to see Maria Montessoris miracle children.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:20:35 +0000
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