Dr. Maria Montessori's Role And Views Of The Classroom

Dr. Maria Montessori and Colin Powell are both passionate authors of texts on how they believe children should be educated. In Maria Montessori’s Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook, she writes on her belief of how a teacher should be like a “guide” in a student’s life and how a child should be left free to develop their own personality. In contrast, Powell’s Kids Need Structure, he explains his beliefs that a teacher should educate in the manner of that of a “drill sergeant” and that children need a great deal of structure and a firm hand. However, they both want the best for the children even if they approach this goal with different methods. Montessori and Powell have differing views on teacher’s role and structure, but are similar in the fact
Montessori shares her passion and desire for her hope of adult guidance in a child’s life as she states:“Our Intervention in this Marvelous process is indirect;we are here to offer to this life,which came the world by itself, the means necessary for development”. Montessori wants the adults to be more willing to wait for the child and his development to evolve overtime as they learn. The adults need to be respectful and patient with the children. Montessori wants to greatly impact every child’s life, for the good, in hopes that they will achieve great things in their futures. She uses the tactic of gentle guidance to help the children develop into the best version of themselves. Furthermore, readers can comprehend that Montessori wants what’s best for kids because she elaborates that we should “be always ready to share in both the joys and the difficulties which the child experiences”. Montessori explains that adults should be always ready to share in a child’s experiences. This implies that adults need to be patient with children but always be ready to help them when needed and rejoice with them when they succeed. She also explains that teachers should always be ready. This displays that a teacher should always be there to help each child and that a child should be able to approach her with any need that he has without feeling a resistance to her. This shows that Montessori wants what is best for kids, and she goes about this in a very passionate way. Similarly, Powell also wants what is best for children. Powell shows he wants the best for kids is when he says, “I’m working at all the energy I have to sort of communicate this message that we need preschool, we need Head Start, we need prenatal care.” Colin Powell shows how important it is to him for children to get great education with an early start. By using powerful phrases such