It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Interpretation
Embracing errors as a natural part of life allows us to learn and grow from them.
Maria Montessori's quote emphasizes the importance of accepting and even befriending our mistakes. Instead of viewing errors as setbacks, we should see them as integral to our journey, filled with lessons and opportunities for personal growth. By treating errors as companions that serve a purpose, we foster a mindset conducive to learning and resilience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience, one might quote Montessori to highlight the value of learning from mistakes.
... 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.
If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.
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