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| Children working with Montessori's binomial cube (left) and trinomial cube |
"This power begins in infancy with basic sense perception; an infant exerting effort to see things clearly. Then it becomes a toddler’s extraordinary effort to coordinate his movements to perform basic tasks. . . . Later, this power becomes a three year old revisiting the trinomial cube over and over again across a span of many weeks to achieve mastery. . . .
"Throughout these examples we see a strong motivation to perceive, which is a power residing in the soul of every child. And the Montessori materials are inventions which tap into this motivation and unleash this power.“
~ Mike Gustafson from his post 'The Rocket Ship of the Human Spirit.' Hat tip Carrie Biondi who notes Gustafson’s emboldened point "reminds me of the beautiful opening line of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Joe Sachs’s trans.): “All humans by nature stretch themselves out toward understanding."
~ Mike Gustafson from his post 'The Rocket Ship of the Human Spirit.' Hat tip Carrie Biondi who notes Gustafson’s emboldened point "reminds me of the beautiful opening line of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Joe Sachs’s trans.): “All humans by nature stretch themselves out toward understanding."
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