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HOW CHILDREN LEARN
Truly educated individuals continue
learning long after the hours and years they spend in the classroom because
they are motivated from within by a natural curiosity and love for knowledge.
Dr. Montessori felt, therefore, that the goal of early childhood education
should not be to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of
studies, but rather to cultivate his own natural desire to learn.
In the Montessori classroom this
objective is approached in two ways: first, by allowing each child to
experience the excitement of learning by his own choice rather than by being
forced; and second, by helping him to perfect all his natural tools for
learning, so that his ability will be at a maximum in future learning
situations. The Montessori materials have this dual long-range purpose in
addition to their immediate purpose of giving specific information to the
child.
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