'Releasing the spirit of the child'

As elementary Montessori class leaders our job is to catch a child’s innate curiosity and questioning mind to invite further exploration, offer a challenge, put the child in contact with the materials in the classroom or better still encourage the child to look for their answers outside of it Or, as the owner of the Eton bookshop so eloquently said on Saturday, as we got into conversation about a possible art book I was considering for school, 'Release the spirit of the child' .