Abstract
In the present paper the author proposes a mytho‐symbolic analysis of some of the main texts of Maria Montessori (1870–1952) in which the theme of the New Child was the object of particular attention. Study of these texts enables the author to demonstrate that Montessori insisted on the redemptive character of the new child. The child serves as the guide to the adult in forming a society of new men. He constitutes the guidance for the construction of a new more harmonious, pacific future. This study is based on a pedagogic‐cultural approach by the use of a mythanalytic hermeneutics and the elaboration of an ideologemic decor that shows the vectors of the texts analysed as well as the mythical contours of those ideas. The result of the mythanalytic reading, carried out with the most rigorous hermeneutic criteria, concludes that Montessori is under a strong influence of Christian mythologemes such as that of the Saviour Child or its related myths of Hermes and Prometheus.
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