The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
Interpretation
Children's ability to achieve independence is essential for their natural growth and development.
Maria Montessori emphasizes the importance of children's independent achievements as crucial milestones in their overall development. These conquests signify not only a child's growing autonomy but also their journey towards becoming capable and self-reliant individuals, laying the foundation for future learning and personal growth.
In practice
In a community meeting discussing child education methods.
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.
When we want to infuse new ideas, _x000D_ to modify or better the habits and customs of a people, _x000D_ to breathe new vigor into its national traits, _x000D_ we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.
Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird it will be to be a female historian.
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
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