1. Attitude of the Adult
Micro-Economy with Production and Exchange in a Montessori
Erdkinder Program
Quotations: “From Childhood to Adolescence” by Maria Montessori

2. Attitude of the Adult The adult guide must be fully prepared …
Consultative
Hand-work
Hard work
Production & exchange
Supply/demand
Income/expense

3. Attitude of the Adult
“It is better to treat the adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.”

4. Attitude of the Adult
“Young people must have enough freedom to allow them to act on individual initiative. But in order that individual action should be free and useful at the same time it must be restricted within certain limits…”

5. Attitude of the Adult
“There must be staff specially qualified in practical work, in cooking, or sewing and mending…”

6. Attitude of the Adult “It may be asked: how are they to earn money?
“There must be some adult workers who will start the concern, showing how the work is done …..

7. Attitude of the Adult
“…and allow the children by degrees to do their share in the organization and accounting…

8. Attitude of the Adult
“…The children can take turns to give real help in the work, and make the place attractive by their youth and their happiness….

9. Attitude of the Adult
“…as well as their industry and resourcefulness….

10. Attitude of the Adult
“And so the business will develop, little by little, through the cooperation of the parents, the instructors, and the children themselves.”

11. Attitude of the Adult
“The plan aims above all at valorization of the personality in the present social conditions…the aim is to widen education instead of restricting it.”

12. Attitude of the Adult
“Respect for the children is of the greatest importance and must be observed in practice. The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is the stage of life that he has surpassed.”