Among the practical life activities include the lesson of silence. This is another specific feature of this pedagogy. Far from being forced silence is discovered. Once discovered, he is loved as a very valuable resource. Before going into the details of this "lesson" singular, Maria Montessori, who we listen to reveals the importance and richness in a conference in Holland in 1938.
THE SILENCE: A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR CHILD
Maria Montessori pedagogy has revealed how can learn to be silent without being taxed as a military order. Silence is less cultivated. Too often it is imposed as an external constraint to avoid chaos. It has nothing creative. Instead of discovering the flavor, it evacuates as an additional constraint that must be released. Reigns noise. intelligence will be unable to receive the vitamins that represents this psychic ability. Yet no great creation, not personal development, no significant development can occur without a phase of silence . For Maria Montessori
who has experienced in her classes free power of silence in their classrooms, this discovery is a real novelty. Children are capable of silence. They love it. Know how to appreciate it. " And the silence was a revelation. I never thought that infants could receive as much love and if this thing just as mysterious. Now, I begin to understand that something had been hidden. (... ). Now, for this silence, there should be no movement, we must think of anything that could move .
SILENCE AFFINE CONSCIOUSNESS
Maria Montessori then states what the consequences of this silence. " They develop a high sensitivity to noise. Naturally, when you do not know the silence, we can not appreciate the nuances offered by the noises. But that means being more sensitive to noise. This means that the sounds appear more strongly, when you do this (The editor says here that Maria Montessori did slightly move the table). When this sensitivity to noise is associated with love of silence, you'll see that this lesson students are more disciplined and calm. And everything they do will be done quietly. Then they will draw a large profit. You will see that these children show a delicacy ....(...) It is then in a world of subtle and refined. And let me the word, it all comes spontaneously perfect this art is a high discipline to which we can never command a .
SILENCE AND CREATION
Night reminds us that the psychological need is silent. But sleeping we we only have little awareness ... The "lesson" of silence may provide an opportunity for awareness of benefit to both large and small ... ... In the silence that will shape the scientists, artists, thinkers ... Maria Montessori said that often silence " knowledge brings us, we did not realize that we have in ourselves an inner life . EM Standing, in his book about Maria Montessori (Maria Montessori , his life and his work ) tells " one day a director with his knowledge asked the children what they heard in silence. In addition noises we can distinguish when the silence is, a child answered hearing next spring, and another voice of God in him. It is a tragedy of our time that so many people grow mechanistic without having discovered the beauty of silence .
Without silence, the inner man can attain the stature that is his. The silence tells us to see .... The silence we learn to hear .. But silence is known by the silence ...
Coming soon: The Voices of Silence (lesson of silence) ...
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who has experienced in her classes free power of silence in their classrooms, this discovery is a real novelty. Children are capable of silence. They love it. Know how to appreciate it. " And the silence was a revelation. I never thought that infants could receive as much love and if this thing just as mysterious. Now, I begin to understand that something had been hidden. (... ). Now, for this silence, there should be no movement, we must think of anything that could move .
SILENCE AFFINE CONSCIOUSNESS
Maria Montessori then states what the consequences of this silence. " They develop a high sensitivity to noise. Naturally, when you do not know the silence, we can not appreciate the nuances offered by the noises. But that means being more sensitive to noise. This means that the sounds appear more strongly, when you do this (The editor says here that Maria Montessori did slightly move the table). When this sensitivity to noise is associated with love of silence, you'll see that this lesson students are more disciplined and calm. And everything they do will be done quietly. Then they will draw a large profit. You will see that these children show a delicacy ....(...) It is then in a world of subtle and refined. And let me the word, it all comes spontaneously perfect this art is a high discipline to which we can never command a . SILENCE AND CREATION
Night reminds us that the psychological need is silent. But sleeping we we only have little awareness ... The "lesson" of silence may provide an opportunity for awareness of benefit to both large and small ... ... In the silence that will shape the scientists, artists, thinkers ... Maria Montessori said that often silence " knowledge brings us, we did not realize that we have in ourselves an inner life . EM Standing, in his book about Maria Montessori (Maria Montessori , his life and his work ) tells " one day a director with his knowledge asked the children what they heard in silence. In addition noises we can distinguish when the silence is, a child answered hearing next spring, and another voice of God in him. It is a tragedy of our time that so many people grow mechanistic without having discovered the beauty of silence .
Without silence, the inner man can attain the stature that is his. The silence tells us to see .... The silence we learn to hear .. But silence is known by the silence ...
Coming soon: The Voices of Silence (lesson of silence) ...
Related Topics:
The Atrium place of initiation to prayer
Montessori, the lesson of silence and liturgical prayer
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