Environment is the first element of education. A good teaching environment can not only improve the learning effect and cultivate children's innovative consciousness, but also help children develop good behavior habits. Therefore, creating a suitable environment for children is more important than anything else. According to years of observation and experiments on children, Dr. Montessori believes that children can show excellent qualities and amazing wisdom such as "loving order, being earnest, paying attention for a long time and not getting tired of repeated operations" in a "prepared" environment.
Dr. Montessori once said: "Nature is a classroom that is open for free 24 hours." Society, like nature, is itself a big environment, a big school and a resource pool for children to grow up. Therefore, before the child is six years old, it is a good opportunity for teachers and parents to lead the child into nature and society, to increase the child's knowledge, broaden his horizons and accumulate life experience.
Montessori's main educational views;
1, children have an innate "inner vitality", which has infinite power. We should let children develop freely through this power.
2. Children's development has a unique "psychological embryonic period" for human beings. Children aged 0-3 are in this period, which is a period when children unconsciously accept external stimuli and form various psychological activities. We should provide children with an environment suitable for the development of mental embryos so that they can develop healthily.
3. Children have a "sensitive period", such as the sensitive period of mouth, hands and order. It is this sensitivity that gives children a unique intensity in contact with the outside world. In the sensitive period, they are full of energy and passion for the world and can learn all kinds of things easily. In this period, it is the easiest and most effective to cultivate children's ability. Through observation, Montai summed up all kinds of sensitive periods of children as an important reference, and gave them correct and timely help to avoid missing the sensitive period.