Montessori Today, Chapter 2: Overview of the Primary Years

Montessori�s first plane of development begins at birth and extends through the first full six years of life. It is a time of immense physic...

Montessori Today, Chapter 1: The Origin and Theory of Montessori Education

Over her lifetime, Maria Montessori examined childhood behavior throughout various countries and cultures and during times of war and peace....

Montessori Today: Introduction and Preface

With this blog, we begin a new series, reviewing Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood by Paula Po...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 28: Love and Its Source � The Child

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 27: The Teacher's Preparation

 Permit me to repeat � some words which have helped us to keep in mind all the thing of which I have been speaking. It is not a prayer, but ...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 26: Discipline and the Teacher

Free choice is one of the highest of all mental processes. �Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p. 271. As a NAMC tutor, I regularly get em...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 25: The Three Levels of Discipline

Conscious will is a power which develops with use and activity. �Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p. 254. When my son was young, I alway...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 23: Cohesion in the Social Unit

The great task of education must be to secure and to preserve a normality which, of its own nature, gravitates toward the center of perfecti...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 22: Social Development

�no one acting on the child from the outside can cause him to concentrate. Only he can organize his psychic life. � Maria Montessori The Abs...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 20: Character Building is the Child�s Own Achievement

Children construct their own characters. �Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p. 208. The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 20: Character Building is...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 19: The Child�s Contribution to Society � Normalization

The transition from one state to the other always follows a piece of work done by the hands with real things, work accompanied by mental con...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 18: Character and Its Defects in Childhood

It follows that the child�s character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered or the freedom favoring his development t...

The Absorbent Mind Chapter 17: Further Elaboration, Part 3 - The Mathematical Mind

The results we obtain with our little ones contrast oddly with the fact that mathematics is so often held to be a scourge rather than pleasu...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 17: Acquisition of Culture � Imagination

Is the child�s mental horizon limited to what he sees? No. He has a type of mind that goes beyond the concrete. He has the great power of im...

The Absorbent Mind: Chapter 16: From Unconscious to Conscious Worker

�Hence there are two tendencies: one is the extension of consciousness by activities performed on the environment, the other is for perfecti...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 15: Development and Imitation

�The child has his own laws of development, and if we want to help him grow, it is a question of following these, and not of imposing oursel...

The Absorbent Mind, Chapter 14: Intelligence and the Hand

Therefore, it is clear that we must not carry the child about, but let him walk, and if his hand wishes to work, we must provide him with th...