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Role and Nature of the Prepared Environment in Montessori Education

  Role and Nature of the Prepared Environment Starting from birth, a child develops both psychically and physically. These two proceeds parallel in general, for instance the first physical event in a child’s life, birth, is the first step of becoming independent from his mother. This step is followed by crawling, supplementary food, walking and weaning. These are the natural milestones that an adult has almost no influence on them; they are already programmed in the child’s psyche. The role of parents or adults living with the child starts preparing a child-like environment starting from birth, for helping to handle the birth terror, for the comfort of the child, for the adaptation and for unfolding his character. One should take into account all dimensions of a human being, such as physical, psychological, mental and social, in preparing an environment. So, an environment is not a place in that the child just lives and grows up unintentionally, but it is a total surrounding of o...