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Read & copy the quotation
“Give the child an environment in which everything is constructed in proportion to himself, and let him live therein.”
- Date
- 1917
- English wording
- Florence Simmonds — Translator · from Italian
Meaning of “Give the child an environment in which everything…”
An environment designed around the learner’s scale and capacities can make independent activity observable and give development room to emerge without constant adult substitution.
Where does it come from?
Spontaneous Activity in Education, Chapter I, “A Survey of the Child’s Life,” around printed page 20, Florence Simmonds translation, Project Gutenberg #24727. Montessori proposes a child-scaled environment and immediately develops the claim through the language of active and spiritual life. This is historical Montessori pedagogy and observation, not a universally established modern developmental outcome.
