How to combine Montessori's educational thought with the actual situation of kindergartens in China? Some people think that children are independent individuals, their development has a sensitive period, their physical and mental development has continuity and stages, and they have inherent potential, which can be fully explored.

Children are independent individuals.

Montessori believes that children are born as a unique and independent individual. Children are not as passive as traditional educational views think, they need help and rely on adults, and children have their own ideas. Montessori not only opposes the misunderstanding of children in the traditional concept of children's education, but also opposes burying children's due rights under the prejudice of so-called order and justice.

There is a sensitive period for children's development.

Montessori pointed out that there are two main driving forces for children's development: sensitivity and absorptive thinking. Among them, sensitivity refers to a person's acute sensitivity to some external stimuli in the process of life development, thus affecting his mental operation or physiological reaction.

3. Children's physical and mental development is continuous and phased.

The physical and mental development of preschool children is the unity of continuity and stages. Children's physical and mental development is a process of constant contradictory movement and change, and it is a process of constant quantitative accumulation and qualitative change. The development before and after is closely related, and the former lower-level development is the premise of the latter higher-level development.

4. Children have inherent potential.

Montessori believes that children have strong and gifted inner potential and positive strength, which can continue to develop under their natural and spontaneous actions.

In his view, children's growth and development are influenced by their own inherent potential, which is an "elusive thing". Stimulating children's inner potential can give full play to children's vitality and become a source of motivation for children to form a unique psychology.

5. Fully explore the inner potential of children.

Montessori pointed out that children's potential has infinite power. For this reason, the primary task of preschool teachers is to stimulate the inner potential of children and make them develop naturally and freely according to the law of individual development. Montessori believes that children's potential is an absorbing mind, which is different from receiving and understanding.