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"The
Absorbent
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THE
BOOK
WAS
DRENCHED
CO
>
OU 164288
OSMANIA
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Call
No.
1J6.72A76A
Accession
No.
28877
AuthorMontensori
,
f'aria
Title
Absorbent
min
"
But
the
reality
shown
by
the
child
is
not
so.
The
child
reveals
that
nature's
teachings
are
quite
different
from
the
ideals
that
society
has
forged
for
itself.
The
child
seeks
independence
through
work
:
independence
of
body
and
of
mind.
The
child
seems
to
say
:
"I
do
not
mind
how
much
you
know,
1
want to
know
things
for
myself.
I
want
to
have
experience
in
the
world
and
to
perceive
it
with
my
own
effort
;
you
keep
your
own
knowledge
and
let
me
acquire
mine/'
We
must
understand
clearly
that
when
we
give
freedom and
independence
to
the
child,
we
give
freedom
to
a
worker
who
is
impelled
to
act
and
who
cannot
live
except
by
his
work
and
his
activity.
This
is
the
form
of
existence
for
living
beings,
and
as
the
human
being is
also
living,
he
also
has
this
tendency.
And
if
we
try
to
stop
it
then,
we
produce
a
degeneration
in
the
individual.
Everything
in
creation
is
activity
and
in
life
this
is
all
the
more
so.
Life
is
activity and
it
is
only
through
activity
that
perfection
of
life
can
be
sought
and
found.
The
social
aspirations
that
have
come
to
us
through
the
experience
of
past
generations
:
an
ideal
life
of
less
hours
of
work,
of
people working
for
us,
of
idling
as
long
as
we
can,
is
what
nature
shows
as
the
characteristic
of
a
degenerate
child.
These
aspirations
are
the
characteristics
of
regression
of
the
child
who
was
not
helped
in
the
first
days of
its
life
to
adapt
itself
and
who
has
acquired
a
disgust
for
the
environment
and
for
activity.
He
it
is
who
wants
to
be
helped
by
other
people,
who
wants
to
135
THE
ABSORBENT
MIND
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