Pedro Valenzuela, Teacher and Writer: “Learning Literacy Does Not Depend on Age, but on a Process of Brain Maturation”

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If someone intended to prepare a gazpacho and, as he approached the tomato maker, he would find a red tomato next to another still green tomato, he would understand that there was no point in rushing it. It would be of little use to try to force his rhythm: in a matter of days, the green tomato will reach the color and maturity of the red by itself. That same logic of nature, says the teacher of the Montessori Pedro Valenzuela method (Murcia, 44…