The absorbent mind
by Maria Montessori · first published 1949
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Based on the lectures given by Dr. Maria maria Montessori at Ahmedabad, during the first training course to be held after her internment in India, which lasted till the end of World War 2. In it she illustrated the unique mental powers of the young child which enable him to construct and firmly establish within but a few years- without teachers, without any of the usual aids of education, nay almost abandoned and often obstructed all the characteristics of the human personality.
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on “Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?” ↗Are you reading Maria Montessori's book, The Absorbent Mind? If not, I highly recommend going straight to the source. There is a bit of a cult like mentality around the whole Montessori Method, which is odd to me. However, I do think Maria Montessori got most…
on “The Miseducation of Maria Montessori” ↗Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like a great book and is on sale now for Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Absorbent-Mind-Unabridged-Start-Publi...
on “Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?” ↗…ability to quickly read people and know what they're feeling—my grandpa refers to it as "acute awareness"). Several years back the "why" of all this started to click when I read Maria Montessori's book—The Absorbent Mind [1]—on the first few years of childhood development (~0-6 years). She explains that kids are like sponges and their personality forms relative to what they experience in those first few years. When I…
on “Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable” ↗