A Delicate Task: Teaching and Learning on a Montessori Path

ISBN: 1475931425

Author: McTamaney Ed.D., Catherine

Condition: New

There are, despite the loneliness of our classrooms and the heartache of having been called to teach, others on the path with us. Teaching is hard. Teaching in a Montessori path is even more so. Montessorians are asked to give up so much of ourselves, to make ourselves humble and lowly before the child, to be servants, to be scientists, to be saints. We often let ourselves down. There it is, then. We will let ourselves down. But there are others on the path with us. We can lean on each other. We can walk in each others footsteps. Sometimes were at the front of the path. Sometimes were following another traveler. Sometimes were resting. Sometimes the laughter of our group is so cacophonous that we forget how tired our feet are. Sometimes were so far ahead or behind that we cant even see each other anymore. But were not alone.We are each others navigational stars. Montessoris words, across generations, guide us. Our own words, whispered in each others ears or passed in notes or published in books, they give us guidance, too. They remind us on the hardest days that were not alone. We are not alone. We share certain tendencies, certain traits, common among humanity, common across decades. We are working in common toward a perfection we may never individually see. But were on the path. And were not alone.