Sublime

Great teachers set high standards for all their students, not just the ones who are already achieving.

Le message de Montessori trouve un écho puissant dans les sociétés actuelles où le respect de l’enfant, l’autonomie, le bien-être, la bienveillance et l’éducation multisensorielle sont des valeurs importantes. De surcroît, beaucoup de recherches en sciences cognitives et neurosciences viennent conforter ses intuitions et observations très lucides

But, unless she practices her inner and outer freedoms regularly, submission, passivity, and time spent in captivity dull her innate gifts of vision, perception, confidence, and so forth, the ones she needs for standing on her own.

When I was fifteen, she offered to host a weekly gathering in our basement, with me and eleven other girls from my high school, to help us think about our identity and transformation as women. She wanted to bring her own experience as an anthropologist to help us with the fraught transitions we found ourselves in.

Regaining lost instinct and healing injured instinct is truly within one’s reach, for it returns when a woman pays close attention through listening, looking, and sensing the world around herself, and then by acting as she sees others act; efficiently, effectively, and soulfully. The opportunity to observe others who have instincts well intact is

great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.

Without our realizing, we so often endorse our children for their actions, rather than for just being. Celebrating our children’s being means allowing them to exist without the snares of our expectations. It’s to revel in their existence without them having to do a single thing, prove anything, or accomplish any kind of goal.

We as educators must take seriously our responsibility to create growth-mindset-friendly environments—where kids feel safe from judgment, where they understand that we believe in their potential to grow, and where they know that we are totally dedicated to collaborating with them on their learning.

“Becoming is better than being.”