Respect for Nature in Montessori

Those seeking to know how Montessori develops a love for nature, may have come to realize that there is no official album for this concept - it is interwoven throughout all the albums:

• respect for the child (easier to give respect when one receives it)
• reasonable expectations of responsibility with corresponding freedom
• care for materials
• care for people and for self
• early experiences with the world around the child - plants, animals, weather
• getting out into the world both in primary and in elementary
• cosmic education nature of the environment
• development of historical appreciation for gifts
• responsibility to pass these gifts on in a positive way

Essentially, because we *care*, they will care.

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