Maria Montessori was very interested in the formation of language. This is probably considering his prodigious child development that has come to isolate the characteristics of his psyche: the absorbent mind. Watching a child learn its mother tongue, Maria Montessori was able to perceive how such a period during which the child grows in "unconscious" is that fertility no longer exists as it were in adults. This period is the creation of man.
LISTENING SUBTLE
"To develop language, they must have a very fine play and the ability to identify hear every little detail in his environment already .(...) at the age of three months the child is looking with great attention the mouths of those who put to the floor .(...) It is very important that you see this and you notice that these facts are generally set aside . (...) Young children are enthralled to see how the mouth of an adult moves, because they have heard this weird music that is the human voice, because when we talk to our little ones are particularly ringing voice. " THIS WHAT THE ENGINEERING CHILD
"The child is a genius who feels driven to perform a huge work. It's a great thing that is being built. Language is something artistic that does not exist in nature. It is a creation of man. This is an acquisition of intelligence. It is not written into human nature. Each culture has its particular language. Human language is very old. It was created several thousand years ago through the culture. It exists in the environment, but it is not just a natural phenomenon. It is the advent of human intelligence. How this language can it interest the baby?
The language does not exist in the infant, but the sensitivity is there to enable him to acquire it. We are on a psychic level. If we interpret this phenomenon we must understand that we study an unconscious phenomenon. Before consciousness occurs, there is a great activity of the unconscious. The child is unconscious but has a great ability and great strength. It is a miracle of human nature. The psyche of human nature is what is most admirable in the world ".
THIS MASTER OF LANGUAGE
We all know how the learning of a foreign language is difficult. We often spend days and years learning grammar, vocabulary, syntax ... Yet despite the time few would succeed in mastering a foreign language as perfectly as the child has its own language.
It is very interesting noted qu''un child living in a bilingual environment will have no trouble learning each language and that according to his interlocutors he will adapt naturally.
Whatever indeed the supposed difficulty of the language, the child that does not represent any particular obstacle. At the same age, all children of the world become the masters of language. We are certainly accustomed to living the "explosion" of language. They show, however, the surprising psychic activity of the child and the singularity of its operation. "This is further evidence showing that the child's psyche is different from that of adults. For us this is not the same thing to learn a complicated language or not when we want to learn it. (...) When we have learned a language as a child, we have learned with accuracy and ease. Only the language we call mother will be what we proficiently. But although we called mother tongue is not the mother who teaches that language to the child. (...) When we say that we absolutely do not want to diminish the role of the mother, but we want to recognize the child that belongs to him. "
SPIRIT PHOTO
To understand the difference between the spirit of the child and adult, Maria Montessori uses an image that can help us understand his comments. "We can compare the darkness of the darkroom to the unconscious. Objects that pass are" set "and stay there forever. That is the difference between the mind of a child than an adult: the child has a psyche "photographic" while that of the adult resembles the painter. In adults its many efforts needed to wait for perfection and it is possible to follow very clearly all the stages of progress " .
This image allows us to better define the difference. Put a photographer and a painter before a complex landscape. In a "click" the photographer will be "absorbed" the perfect image of what he observes. The artist, meanwhile, will have to work several days before reaching a "reproduction" acceptable.
SPEAK TO WOMEN
Maria Montessori concluded his talk by making a "wink anthropological women. "Women are often accused of talking a lot. And yet, perhaps one of the most unique gifts that Nature has given women for the welfare of children. It is obvious that the young child to develop language must be accompanied by adults who speak with him. Nothing is more logical, because the language does not grow like a flower or a tree is a skill most complex it is impossible for children to learn without the intense contact with people who use it. "
Justice is done ... Or rather, once again, the doctor shows us how nature is intelligible ... So let us talk, let us talk, let's talk, ... slowly and clearly for the greater good of the children around us ...
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