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The life of maria montessori5/31/2023 Then I called upon all the children to sing they sang, but the little girl continued undisturbed, repeating her exercise even after the short song had come to an end. I watched the child intently without disturbing her at first, and began to count how many times she repeated the exercise then, seeing that she was continuing for a long time, I picked up the little arm-chair in which she was seated, and placed chair and child upon the table the little creature hastily caught up her case of insets, laid it across the arms of her chair, and gathering the cylinders into her lap, set to work again. The expression on the child’s face was one of such concentrated attention that it seemed to me an extraordinary manifestation up to this time none of the children had ever shown such fixity of interest in an object and my belief in the characteristic instability of attention in young children, who flit incessantly from one thing to another, made me peculiarly alive to the phenomenon. I was making my first essays in applying the principles and part of the material I had used for many years previously in the education of deficient children, to the normal children of the San Lorenzo quarter in Rome, when I happened to notice a little girl of about three years old deeply absorbed in a set of solid insets, removing the wooden cylinders from their respective holes and replacing them.
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