Can prosperity be obtained through knowledge? The Bible says in Isaiah 33:6 “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation, the fear of the Lord is his treasure.”
The philosophies of Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget regarding education are similar in that they both value motor and verbal skills, and the children manipulate a variety of hands-on lessons and activities with the united idea that children develop in sequence, Montessori and Piaget are not in agreement on timing.
Piaget believed that children have periods of cognitive or intellectual development not reaching the concrete stage until around the age of 7 and basic knowledge through the senses from birth to two years. Montessori stressed that the development of crucial periods of sensitivity are from birth to 3 years and should be encouraged from an early stage.
Piaget’s theory places the teacher as an observer and supporter while the children have the freedom to move about and to choose their activity. Piaget’s classroom stresses completing the lesson, getting the job done, and a required nap time.
The Montessori Method places the teacher as demonstrator showing a lesson and allowing the children to repeat the activity as long as their attention span will allow and then choose a different activity with minimum interference from the teacher. Montessori’s classroom is child directed and a child may lie down if they choose to do so.
We understand at Montessori Children’s House of Miami Lakes that we are farmers and when we put the law of seed, time, and harvest to work for us, it ultimately germinates. Galatians 6:7 says “That what so ever a man soweth, that he shall reap.”
Like plants, children are subject to God’s laws of progression. In the Gospel of Mark 4:26-28 it says “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seeds upon the ground and then continues sleeping and rising the night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases. He knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear then the full grain in the ear.”