I love how little children look at the most ordinary objects with such profound enthusiasm. Why does the urge to investigate everything and anything begin to fade after the first 6 years? How can I keep the light in their eyes?
As was written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in The Creativity Crisis:
“Preschool children, on average, ask their parents about 100 question a day. Why, why, why — sometimes parents just wish it’d stop. Tragically, it does stop. By middle school they’ve pretty much stopped asking. It’s no coincidence that this same time is when student motivation and engagement plummet. They didn’t stop asking questions because they lost interest: it’s the other way around. They lost interest because they stopped asking questions.”
Now, I know one of my girls will ask me a question before I have finished typing this sentence and I will answer it with the dignity it deserves.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Colours of My World
Welcome. Here you will find a place where I will store my thoughts, trials and successes as I travel the road towards a deeper understanding of the Montessori way. I can't think of a better way to organise the material I am collecting. Hopefully, over time, this blog will become a source of inspiration that I can turn to as I work towards a happy balance between my job teaching in a mainstream school and my commitment to the Montessori method of learning.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)