Suốt mười mấy năm qua, đội ngũ giáo viên Casa Hanoi luôn nỗ lực từng ngày vào việc xây dựng Ý Chí nơi trẻ. Và đây là một đoạn viết về Ý Chí trong cuốn sách của Montessori mà chúng tôi muốn đọc nguyên bản tiếng Anh.
When the child chooses from among a considerable number of objects the one he prefers, when he moves to go and take it from the sideboard, and then replaces it, or consents to give it up to a companion; when he waits until one of the pieces of the apparatus he wishes to use is laid aside by the child who has it in his hand at the moment; when he persists for a long time and with earnest attention in the same exercise, correcting the mistakes which the didactic material reveals to him; when, in the silence-exercise, he retains all his impulses, all his movements, and then, rising when his name is called, controls these movements carefully to avoid making a noise with his feet or knocking against the furniture, he performs so many acts of the “will.” It may be said that in him the exercise of the will is continuous; nay, that the factor which really acts and persists among his aptitudes is the will, which is built up on the internal fundamenta! fact of a prolonged attention.
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