Some Principles of Montessori Education

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Question 1: How do you explain that Dr Montessori’s ideas are not mere arm chair philosophy? Answer 1: We have already established in the previous lesson that a child between 0 to 6 years of age have an uncanny potential that help them in their mental and physical development if they are provided with a right environment. Also, we learnt that through purposeful activity a child shapes his own future. Dr Montessori based her method on an intensive and long-continued study of educational problems, broad social outlook, scientific training and observations. The fundamental base for the observation was: The liberty of pupil in their spontaneous manifestations. This Liberty is nothing but the freedom for any physical and mental expression of the child in his environment; but on the contrary every element around the child should understand the child’s intention and behaviour and help them achieve it at their own pace of learning. Liberty leads to self –learning and self-discipline. Self-discipline again is freedom to reason and think on its own or a sense of responsibility which a child feels from within whereas; conventional discipline is to control someone from doing certain activity which is socially considered being bad. Dr Montessori observed that when a child is busy in a work or a play object that interests him, he forgets about the rest of the world and continues doing it unless he has not done it correctly. While doing such an activity, the child learns to control as much error as possible; also after completing such an activity the child is so happy that no material gift or reward can make up to. Having grown up studying in a conventional school, I thought these ideas were good only in theory which cannot be fruitful in practise. So, to find the genuineness of her philosophy, I started to implement them on my daughter. One day I was sitting and painting

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