Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.
Interpretation
Concentration is an essential element of life that goes beyond formal education methods.
Maria Montessori emphasizes that concentration is a fundamental aspect of living, suggesting that it should be cultivated naturally rather than solely through educational techniques. Her perspective encourages individuals to recognize the importance of focus and attentiveness in all areas of life, highlighting that these qualities contribute significantly to personal growth and learning.
In practice
During a workshop on personal development, this quote can inspire participants to prioritize their focus.
... 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.
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
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