Episode 16: Dr Montessori and Nature

Episode 16: Dr Montessori and Nature

Update: 2022-03-31
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In this first of three podcasts on the theme of nature, Barbara and David explore Maria Montessori’s advocacy of all things natural. Montessori believed that modern children, who are effectively imprisoned in our urban, degenerate, artificial lifestyles, should be reconnected with Nature at large. By this she meant not just flower gardens, petting zoos, and parks with sandpits — but wild, scary and uncomfortable Nature, wet, windswept, scorched and frozen, ‘red in tooth and claw’. This reconnection with real Nature, she believed, frees the child’s expansive spirit, slows life to the pace of the seasons, engenders respect for all living things, and releases the child’s inner strength to thrive in adversity.

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Episode 16: Dr Montessori and Nature

Episode 16: Dr Montessori and Nature

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