Book: The secret of childhood – Maria Montessori

Book The secret of childhood – Maria Montessori / Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company

The secret of childhood soft cover book from the Montessori series, volume 22, published by Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company, focuses on early childhood development, an educational method, and the relation of the child to society.

The new-born child who is not only a body ready to function as a body, but also has a spiritual embryo with latent psychic capacities is the essence of the Montessori Method. This book aims for adults to learn from children: observing, helping, presenting, rather than teaching or forcing. The adult must play a low-key role; the child chooses his own materials to work with and learns from them because they interest him. Free choice creates concentration, no punishment and reward.

Based in Laren, the Netherlands, the Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company publishes and distributes the books as well as the unpublished writings by Dr. Maria Montessori in English and Spanish.

The publishing house upholds, propagates and furthers the pedagogical principles and practices formulated by Maria Montessori for the full development of the human being. They also care for and maintain all the (publishing) rights and copyrights of the work and books of Maria Montessori and the Archives of Maria Montessori which are managed by the Association Montessori Internationale in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Contents:

1 soft cover book – 204 pages