The Adolescent—A Social Newborn (1938)

In this 37th lecture of the 23rd International Course Amsterdam 1938, Montessori seeks to educate the emergent personality, the personality that finds its roots in nature’s norms evolving in an optimally prepared environment. When unobstructed, adolescent flow finds normality joyful and freeing; the resulting power and focus in life’s pursuits brings a high degree of self-realization at the end of adolescence, as contrasted with melancholy and death wish.