The Absorbent Mind Author:Maria Montessori Mairia Montessori writes in her fascinating analysisof the physial and psychological aspects of a child's growth during the most significant period of human life, the first six years. It is during this period that the shiod acquires, in unaided fashion, the enormous knowlwdge of motor coordination, the making of social adjustments, the setting ... more »of work habits, the lanugage oand the beginning of routines that will set the pattterns of his life.« less