The Prepared Environment

The baby is not an inert or passive “being” but “creative” actively struggling to grow and learn. There is an unconscious urge, a life force, or horme that works untiringly, but this work of the child cannot achieve perfect development if the conditions are not right.
Discuss a perfect prepared environment stimulating his needs for emotional, intellectual stimulation, hygienic precaution, and his physical growth.

Children enter the world as unformed beings. Nature has given them special forms of mental powers which aid in their self-construction. Starting from the moment of birth, the infant is hard at work, actively constructing the very substance of his psyche. Dr Montessori considered that the child was possessed of “a true constructive energy, a dynamic power” and speaks of the child undertaking “an impressive work of inner formation”. Her whole approach to her work was underpinned by the belief that the most important period of l...