Montessori believes that children have an innate "inner vitality", which is positive, constantly developing and has infinite power; The task of education is to stimulate and promote the development of children's "inner potential";
Children are not containers for adults, nor are they clay and wax that can be shaped at will. Teachers and parents must seriously study, observe and understand children's inner world, and help children achieve physical and mental development in free and spontaneous activities. Accordingly, Montessori designed a set of effective training methods for preschool children to guide them to grow up quickly.
? Montessori called children's learning activities "work". She believes that work can coordinate children's muscles and body movements, use their hands and brains, and promote the coordinated development of body and mind. Through children's free choice, independent operation and dedication to work, they have honed their will, strengthened their self-control, courage and self-confidence, cultivated their independent spirit, and strictly disciplined them, which also met their psychological needs.
Montessori education properly solved the problem of children's discipline. Through the children's continuous completion of the grading work at hand, the children have perfected themselves and honed themselves.
With the growth of ability, children's freedom to satisfy their wishes also increases, and their sense of discipline and freedom also grows together.
Montessori attached great importance to the early development of children's intelligence, but opposed the teacher-centered cramming education. Montessori school advocates self-education. In educational activities, children are the main body and the center. They advocate starting with daily training, with a good learning environment and rich teaching AIDS, so that children can learn spontaneously, think independently, discover themselves, educate themselves and grow up.
Teachers and parents are only observers and instructors of children's activities. This kind of education mode, in which teachers don't teach and children explore for themselves, is much better than indoctrination education.
Before the age of 6, the children in Montessori class not only mastered the basic ability of reading and calculation, but also mastered a lot of natural knowledge, and more importantly, they became interested in learning.
An important discovery of Montessori is the "sensitive period" of children's intellectual development, which is of great significance to early childhood education.
Montessori found that children showed strong sensitivity to language movements, details, procedures, reading and writing at different stages before the age of 6. During this period, related learning is very easy and rapid, which is an excellent educational opportunity, but after this time, this strong interest will disappear. Grasping the opportunity and conducting education can lay the foundation for children's lifelong development.
Montessori education law is a complete education system with strong practicability and operability. He can not only develop children's early intelligence, but also improve their physical and mental quality in an all-round way.
Nowadays, in many cities in China, Montessori kindergartens have mushroomed, and Montessori education law is also being valued by preschool teachers in China. We have reason to believe that Montessori teaching method, a classic method of western preschool education in the 20th century, will have a positive and far-reaching impact on our efforts to catch up with the world trend, cultivate and bring up preschool talents in China, and make our children healthier, more scientific and more humane.