“The little child is the creator of the adult mind. This creation should be studied in the sequence of its phenomena. We must know child psychology if we help life. We must study its deep and mysterious psychology, observe the line of development and find what assistance we give at the right time.

Now we know that we must use these hidden energies and to do that we must first know them. We must make a development plan to guide the child gives us through the powers he is revealed to us as we observe it. We must proceed with our own ideas or our prejudices, not by preconceived method, but observing the child. The personality of the child is half haughtily to the great problem of education. He is the only existing master plan. This child presented to us with his wonderful occult powers, is who should direct our efforts. When we say that the child is our master we mean that his revelations are what we consider as our guide. If you do not understand this, does not make sense. Our starting point must be the revelation of these features of the human individual. I say we should take the child as our teacher. You probably will object saying we should educate the child, we should give this or that information, he must learn this and that. But I tell you do not have these biases, because when your energies are released, the child is capable of learning than before. So, I say that this is the Method of the Child, not the Montessori Method. ”

Reading these words of Maria Montessori taken from one of her lectures delivered in 1946, can make you  feel a great release, while a large responsability.

The responsability we have as adults is based primarily on preparing an environment that is conducive to the child in order to develop every skill. Education based on freedom of choice that the child exercises by doing what  is asked by his inner needs, necessarily requires us to show him a world where he will be able to find the  answer of every question  generated through the simple experiences of everyday life.

Preparing a positive environment  definitely liberates us, because the child will learn to be responsible of his actions and will be able to accept the consequences of the mistakes, as wonderful learning opportunities.

Conversely, in an environment that  does not full fill the needs of the child, we adults are creating  tyrants who keep us painfully enslaved to their whims.