Maria Montessori Quote

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults should gain some new intellectual knowledge or achieve a higher standard of culture. No, they must find a different point of departure. The adult must find within himself the still unknown error that prevents him from seeing the child as he is.


Ch. 2. - The Secret of Childhood (1936)


Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults...

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults...

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults...

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them. The remedy is not that adults...