Consider how each of the needs and tendencies is fulfilled in the prepared environment of the atrium - more particularly the tendencies over the "needs". Or consider how to assure each being fulfilled:
From Montessori Nuggets:
The five (5) physical needs of human beings include
- sufficient food
- appropriate clothing
- shelter
- defense
- transportation.
The four (4) spiritual needs human beings include
- love
- arts/music
- vanitas (to improve and embellish one’s environment)
- religion: “To deny, a priori, the religious sentiment in man, and to deprive humanity of the education of this sentiment, is to commit a pedagogical error similar to that of denying, a priori, to the child, the love of learning for learning’s sake. This ignorant assumption led us to dominate the scholar, to subject him to a species of slavery, in order to render him apparently disciplined.”[1]
Tendencies
- exploration
- orientation
- order
- communication
- to know/to reason
- abstraction
- imagination
- the mathematical mind
- work
- repetition
- exactness
- activity
- manipulation
- self-perfection
Each human need and tendency has historical implications, as well as cultural, modern, practical, educational, spiritual and physical implications.
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