Silence is a Gift
For more than a hundred years, children in Montessori schools have been practicing the Silence Game as part of their regular routine. Maria Montessori discovered that children experience great pleasure from the self-control that produces real silence. This is a silence that comes from within the child rather from the demands or rewards for silence that we often make of children. “At first when I had not yet understood the soul of the child, I thought of showing sweets and little toys to the...