"Why Kids Need to Move, Touch and Experience to Learn"

[Anonymous]

Or, a small part of why Maria Montessori is one of my heroes. I just wanted to share this neat article I found:

“Maria Montessori highlighted the connection between minds and bodies in her 1936 book The Secret of Childhood: ‘Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.’

Increasingly scientists are proving Montessori right.”