How the Montessori Material Mold's a Child Into the Man of the Future

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Essay# How the Montessori Material mold the Child into a man of the future Every child is born with his potentials and ability, he just need to develop these potentials, characters and abilities. "Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of direction. In conclusion we may say that the adult looks upon himself as the child's creator and judges the child's actions as good or bad from the viewpoint of his own relations with the child. The adult makes himself the touchstone of what is good and evil in the child. He is infallible, the model upon which the child must be moulded. Any deviation on the child's part from adult ways is regarded as an evil which the adult hastens to correct... An adult who acts in this way, though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality."(The Secret of Childhood Chpt 2, P. 16).The child as already established by Dr Maria Montessori is not born empty; he is born with psychic unfolding that need to develop him into the man of the future. “The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth” (Absorbent Mind, Chapter 1, Pg. 4). The experiences a child has while developing has a way of influencing the man he eventually grows up to that is why when a child is born proper arrangement is made for the care and nourishing of the child. "Man is not born with pre-established behaviour patterns but with the ability to form them during youth. He does this through his personal experiences in his interaction with the environment. These experiences are internalized, and thus structure his inner world." (Education for Human Development
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