Ava Wanas Montessori: Did you know that...

February 24, 2012

Did you know that...

Dinosaurs,

crystals, chickens,

mazes, mud, magnets,

waffles, and wooden towers

...are all the coolest things since sliced bread?

“We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.”

Maria Montessori