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Children, who see the smallest details of things in their reality, must look upon us, who project our own mental synthesis into what we see, as inferior creatures, incapable people who do not know how to look at things. Perhaps to their judgment we have no sense of accuracy, and, moreover, pass over interesting things with indifference, or unconsciousness. Assuredly, if they could express themselves, they would reveal that in the depths of their mental world they have no confidence in us, just as we have no confidence in the child, who is alien to our mode of conceiving things. That is why the grown-up and the child do not understand each other.

Quote ID: 03011

Author

Maria Montessori

Source

The Secret Of Childhood

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