Professor. Dewey, the famous American educator, I think 'in New York - the great center of American life-objects should be dedicated to small children. He went himself 'in all the stores in New York to buy small brooms, chairs, dishes, etc.. But I can not find ' nothing: there was even the idea to manufacture. There were just countless toys of all kinds.
Faced with this situation, prof. Dewey said: "The child has been forgotten." But alas, it is forgotten in many ways, is the forgotten citizen who lives in a world where there is everything to all out for him. He wanders aimlessly, making up tantrums tantrums, destroying toys, looking in vain for satisfaction for his soul, while the adult can not see I was in his v be.
Once that barrier was broken and torn the veil that hid the reality, once the real things were given to small, we expected to find in the face of joy and desire to live overstating the ... but it happened much more ' . The poster child 'a completely different personality . The first result was an act of independence that he seemed to say: "I want to do myself, do not help me." He had become suddenly a man who sought its independence, refusing any help. Nobody would have imagined that this would be his first reaction, and that adults should have merely play the part of the observer. When placed in this environment
proportionate to him, he became the little master. Social life and development of character, followed spontaneously. The happiness of the child is not the only purpose to be achieved, we also wish that he become the manufacturer of man, independent in its functions, the employee and the owner of what 'that depends on him. This is the light that the beginning of conscious life of the individual reveals .
Maria Montessori, the child's mind , p.. 168.
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