When we evaluate a thing, whether we criticize or agree, we need to have a correct attitude. This doesn't mean that everyone should join others in saying "Yes", just don't. Montessori himself was a rebel and a skeptic. She herself is a representative figure who has great doubts about her previous education and has done independent research. However, Montessori's criticism and questioning are treated scientifically and rationally, rather than slogan criticism.
To criticize a thing, we must first understand it. Without a basic understanding, praise or criticism is worthless. It is believed that Montessori is aimed at problem children and lacks the most basic understanding of Montessori.
After graduating from college, Montessori worked in the hospital for two years and met many children with mental development problems. At that time, it was considered as a medical problem and treated by medical means. This made Montessori have great doubts. She thinks that children's problems are mainly education and acquired training, so she turns to education. She accepted the invitation of a special children's school to be the principal, and it took her two years to prove her suspicion. In fact, education is the dominant factor. Through the training of her and her partners, these children have made remarkable progress in intellectual development, catching up with or even surpassing public schools of the same age.
Because of this achievement, 30-year-old Montessori became famous in one fell swoop. Later, she had a bigger question, that is, is the existing traditional education method going the wrong way? Does improper education suppress children with great potential? If we expand the same thinking research and apply it to normal children, can we achieve more unimaginable effects and stimulate children's true potential? This is the sprout of Montessori education.
With this dream, Montessori began to explore the new education of normal children and devoted his life to the research of this kind of children's education. Therefore, she returned to the university to study psychology, philosophy and anthropology, which laid a solid theoretical foundation for Montessori's education law.
What kind of person can make such a move-he has already made a name for himself, but he has resigned as the principal and returned to school as a student? The original biology student turned himself into a liberal arts student in four years? This is the greatness of Montessori-she knows what she wants. Under the grand goal of changing the current situation of children's education, she felt that she still lacked knowledge reserves, so she went back to school. With the accumulation of this period of time, in the later period, the strength of Montessori educational institutions in generate is getting stronger and stronger.
1907 In June, Montessori was invited to establish the world's first Children's Home, which accepted all normal children. Two years, has opened five Children's Home. Children's Home's practice has achieved great success. Montessori's educational methods have unleashed children's unprecedented potential. Later, Montessori systematically sorted out these methods and published Montessori Teaching Method. Once published, this book became popular all over the world, which means the formal birth of Montessori teaching method.
After that, Montessori did not devote himself to being a chain kindergarten and pursuing commercial success. She believes that more children in the world should receive Montessori education and change the harm of traditional education to children on a larger scale. Every time, when we may feel that almost enough is enough, Montessori's heart is really different from ordinary people. She always thinks about broader things. Therefore, Montessori, like those legendary figures in history, their experiences are not accidental, and they are directly related to their own characteristics and personalities.
This is the real development process of Montessori teaching method, and it is probably hearsay to regard it as an understanding of disabled children.