Wednesday, 31 August 2016

freedom of spirit and a burgeoning creative inner life (31 August 2016)


Jeff Koons, Play Doh, 1994 - 2014, with miniature replica in perspex by Jon Burgerman

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
- Maria Montessori

 Dean Bowen, Magpie on a Mound (East), 2016



Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
- Maria Montessori
 Sandra Eterovic, Woman as Ship


We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- Maria Montessori




Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
- Maria Montessori






The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
- Maria Montessori


           


There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
- Maria Montessori



Henri Matisse cut outs

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