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Yesterday in Italy“Children with Early Montessori Materials, Italy.” Today in Northfield “From three to six years, children have a real ‘sense hunger’, they love to touch things, to fit different shapes together, to grade colo...

“How touching it is that man has this instinct, this joy and sentiment for music. Through the little children these things, art and music, remain forever with humanity – over time music has been recombined and developed throughout humanity. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Lectures, p. 1...

Image * Upper Elementary Children proudly displaying their 121 sided polygon. “Actually, a child has only a sensible appreciation of these proportions, but his mind is trained on the basic data that prepares the way for mathematics. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Child, p. 129  ...

“If we study the psychology of children aged between three and six, we see that movement, and especially the movement of the hand, plays a most important part in mental development of children in this age group. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Lectures, p. 36 ...

“The child is a worker and a diligent observer. He looks straight at things; he stares at them for a long time; he is interested in learning all he can about his environment. Perhaps he is staring at a flower, absorbing its image. This work gives him happiness and peace because, in doing so, he...

“[An] interesting fact to be observed in the child of six is his need to associate himself with others, not merely for the sake of company, but in some sort of organized activity. He likes to mix with others in a group wherein each has a different status.”Maria Montessori To Educate the Human P...

“...there would be all kinds of artistic occupations open to free choice both as to the time and the nature of the work. Some must be for the individual and some would require the cooperation of a group. They would involve artistic and linguistic ability and imagination,... ”Maria Montessori F...

“We must not help the child to walk, and if his hands wants to work, we must give him motives of activity, and leave him to proceed to ever greater conquests of independence. ”Maria Montessori Education for a New World, p. 42   ...

“A child can only acquire the words he hears spoken around him. This is not teaching but absorption. The child is, by nature, hungry for words; he loves strange, long words like the names of dinosaurs and constellations. He takes in all these words without understanding their meaning, as his mind ...

“Movement of the hand is essential. Little children revealed that the development of the mind is stimulated by the movement of the hands. The hand is the instrument of the intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling. ”Maria Montessori The...