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# The Absorbent Mind (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC) Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Deep and Important --recommend to all teachers, lawmakers, and parents!
  

*by C***M on Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2016*

This reads sort of like Einstein's Dreams as Montessori puzzles out why things are as they are and why we haven't notice the child is born to learn if we allow it to happen by providing the right environment and materials and teaching methods. This is an excerpt to show the kind of thinking in the book. Highly interesting! Deep! "Supposing we put a little levity into this weighty subject and tell a little story. A certain young man wished to marry and recounted all the praises of the lady of his choice. An elder guide responded in writing and this is what happened: The young man praises her beauty; the guide writes a zero. The young man finding beauty is not enough, states that she is rich; the guide writes zero. The young man says, she is learned, but the guide again writes zero. The young man says: “All this means nothing, well, she is athletic, she rides, swims, plays tennis.” Again the guide writes zero. The young man goes on describing all sorts of qualities which his lady-love possesses and the guide continues to write zero against them. Then the young man says: “She is of good character,” and the guide says: “That is something,” and writes a figure one in front of all the zeros. All the other merits acquire their value from this one quality and with that one in front of all the zeros her total value increases a thousandfold. So it is with civilization, all the achievements are naught and lead to destruction, but if love is there they all acquire a great value."

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    Text on pages is faded
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023*

Unfortunately much of the text on the pages of the books are faded making it harder to read. The 2 stars is not about the content of f the book just the faded text

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    Foundational for understanding Montessori  education
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019*

This book lays the foundation for Dr. Montessori's approach to educating the young child.  She argues that the very capable infant absorbs its environment in a very natural  process that results in the stupendous achievements of locomotion, language and acculturation into whatever social mileiu the child has been born into with no direct teaching required.  The child's inner drive for  mastery and independence propels its efforts to achievement.  The adult's role is to expose the child to a wide variety l of experiences in  the infant's first few years so that he or she  can interact with his or her environment.  Dr. Montessori's point is that the child learns critically important skills such as the mastery of language without direct adult instruction, that within the child is a mechanism that self-directs astonishing achievement through.contact with the environment.  These observations laid the foundation for developing a system of education that harnesses the young child's inner drives to mastery and independence through interaction  with a carefully prepared environment.

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