At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name.
Maria MontessoriJoy, feeling oneโs 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 MontessoriAt birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.
Maria Montessori