The Absorbent Mind is one of the best books ever written by any childhood pedagogist (educator) or philosopher. Maria Montessori literally knocked on the stubborn recesses of your mind to think about who we are as children from the time of our birth to adolescence. It gives you an insight to what you were as a child, not what you might have been. There are no disguises, no fantasies and imaginations, just insights of a dedicated teacher who had immense passion for learning.
“The man is what the child has become.”
I have read several books which are inspired by the Absorbent Mind, applied over and over again in many different aspects of development of the child, at home and in school. For the parents who are struggling to adjust to routines at home with children or simply want to help yourself and your child work together, this book is certainly for you. It is not a recipe book where you can find a note on how to control your child’s behaviour; it is a book that leads you to discover the how-to’s and let’s you use the knowledge in your best interest.
The opening chapters zoom in to the system of relationship between functions of the human senses and areas which directly bring to your attention to growth from the mind out. You might have heard of the phrase, ‘tear your brains out’? The book will save you from venting out against the world and bring you back to the child inside. No matter how poor or rich your environment was when you grew up, childhood experiences will be the most wonderful and memorable in your lifetime.
I travel with it literally because it has helped me recognize my own failings as a parent and teacher, and then empower me to give better for my environment, including writing this weblog. Let’s face it, if we rely on our instincts and intuition to deal with areas of life which we have little to no experience about, we may be able to get optimum results from any decisions or directions we take but only on a per chance basis.
Many books have been written to explain how to succeed, and why we can succeed if we follow their logical patterns of thought processes, but not many books are able to draw out from within the dormant recesses of our intuitive and instinctive potentials, explain in such detail such as to make you want to use those potentials over and over again.
