![]() This we have called the ‘Absorbent Mind’.” (Montessori, 1997 p66) Montessori said “The child creates his own ‘mental flesh’, using for this what he finds in the world about him. Montessori came to realize that the child absorbs his whole environment, without effort and unconsciously. Montessori said, “ The Absorbent Mind is indeed a marvellous gift to humanity.” (Montessori, 1997 p61)ĭuring her observation of a small child’s development, Dr. ![]() She determined that the role of the educator is to strew around in the environment of the child useful items appropriate to each stage of his development. However, the Absorbent Mind is limitless. In the first 6 years of a child’s life, his mind absorbs unconsciously specific things at specific times she called these times ‘The ‘Sensitive Periods’. It takes in the child’s entire environment. The ‘Absorbent Mind’ of the child is soaking up his entire environment unselectively. ![]() But unlike a sponge which in time dries up, the child’s mind incorporates what it soaks up. Montessori observed that the child’s mind is like a sponge. ![]()
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