The Absorbent Mind was Maria Montessori's most in-depth work on her educational theory, based on decades of scientific observation of children. Her view on children and their absorbent minds was a landmark departure from the educational model at the time. This book helped start a revolution in education. Since this book first appeared there have been both cognitive and neurological studies that have confirmed what Maria Montessori knew decades ago.

Fascinating analysis of the physical and psychological aspects of child's growth during the most significant period of human life, the first six years. It is during this period that the child acquires, in unaided fashion, the enormous knowledge of motor coordination, the making of social adjustments, the setting of work habits, the language and the beginning of routines that will set the patterns of his life.