20/08/2019
Colombian-born Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and whose body of work includes "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", was a Montessori student.
In his autobiography he wrote:
"... the Montessori school had opened in Aracataca, and its teachers stimulated the five senses by means of practical exercises, and taught singing. With the talent and beauty of the director, Rosa Elena Fergusson, studying was something as marvellous as the joy of being alive. I learned to appreciate my sense of smell, whose power of nostalgic evocation is overwhelming. And taste, which I refined to the point where I have drinks that taste of window, old bread that tastes of trunk, infusions that taste of Mass."
Of the Montessori approach to education, he wrote:
“I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life."
