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Sequence 48The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 53The humanities also deal with the interpersonal. The child learns to discuss, to interpret, to act out what he knows,… |
Sequence 54all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 21generosity in his understanding and treatment of others in both private and public life-in marriage and in citizenship. I… |
Sequence 129Primary readings will be discussed in SEMINARS which utilize discussion as a pedagogical form, providing special structure for… |
Sequence 135Week Two: July 8 t,o July 12, 1991 THE INVENTION OF DIALECTIC AND THE DERIVATION OF ETHICS: Education for Reason In the… |
Sequence 48THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if… |
Sequence 13We could cooperatively establish a curriculum using as a guide the student's goals, interests, and needs. Coming out of a… |
Sequence 74HAPP~ REvlSITED by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spmt the last 25 years pursuing an understanding of… |
Sequence 80MORAL EDUCATION: A CONVERSATION WTIH ARIS'fOil.E by Steven S. Tigner The fallowing light-hearted rendition of Aristotle… |
Sequence 81here only about the part chat goes on in schools. That's partly why I say "to help cultivate" rather… |
Sequence 91University of California Press, 1980), pp. 395-435. 31 Plato Apology 29e. 32 See, e.g., Plato Protagoras 360d: courage is… |
Sequence 62ogy (covering all of cosmic time back to I 0·30 seconds) is almost over, and Act Two (the attempt to elucidate what happened… |
Sequence 63Mover, itself unmoved. This Mover he called God. Aristotle's God was not the sort of being one would be inclined to… |
Sequence 119is commonplace to think of moving from teaching to administration as a promo- tion! Benjamin Franklin knew better, as he… |
Sequence 127The group read and reread books and essays already assigned to their students, such as Ibsen 's An Enemy of the People… |
Sequence 147Orn TRUTIIS, NEW CHIIDREN by Edwin J. Delattre, Ph.D. Holding up such exemplars of intellectual diligence as Helen Keller and… |
Sequence 150eve'fythlng' turns on the na- ture of the habits, Including ha&its of language, we Jorm by accident and… |
Sequence 152Surely, this is one of the lessons we as teachers should convey to our students by example and deed, and in our words. James… |
Sequence 165resolute without becoming impenetrable to evidence and losing all traces of intellectual and moral humility. It means, as one… |
Sequence 69Science Skits There are many discoveries in science that were, at the time, subject to intense debate among scientists, and… |
Sequence 61together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 123INmooucnoN THE NATURAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY Herbert Ratner's unique portrayal of nature's design of the fami~y… |
Sequence 131These differences set the female apart to be the primary caretaker of the newborn. Since nature fashioned the mammalian… |
Sequence 140If the ecologic era bears any message it is this: When nature is treated well she reciprocates. A persuasive case can be… |
Sequence 143REvlsITING THE NATIJRAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY FOR THE NINETIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. HERBERT RATNER by David Kahn Kahn… |
Sequence 140In any case, when the conditions of flow are present, people tend to report an optimal state of inner harmony that they desire… |
Sequence 141THE CONSEQUENCES OF FLOW There are many reasons why experiencing flow is beneficial. Per- haps the most important is also the… |
Sequence 247corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 257know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
Sequence 265Mart doesn't care. All they care about is that you have 59 cents in your pocket, and you're the same as a person… |
Sequence 125... education researchers have shown that someone who experiences in- terest in a topic also demonstrates more complex… |
Sequence 67phers from Socrates, in the Apology, referring to himself as a midwife; through the early Medi- eval period, beginning… |
Sequence 68is why they start a search for know ledge of that Truth. Such is also the case with Montessori's search into how children… |
Sequence 79not yet fully formed: he has not yet gathered about him the last folds of his robe of flesh and of love which is made up of… |
Sequence 142Relationship, to speak somewhat paradoxically, turns out to be the very substance of things. Every entity is in some sense a… |
Sequence 169• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 153If you play a drum, the skin vibrates in waves. If you could get very close to it and slow things down considerably, you would… |
Sequence 130Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 344The Greeks found out that this new diversi- tied scheme gave each farm family au- tonomy that could not be undermined by… |
Sequence 354was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 362Selma. Wal-Mart doesn't care. All they care about is that you have fifty- nine cents in your pocket and you're the… |
Sequence 408HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 446In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 168hormone levels. Conversely, if the baby is separated from the mother, high stress hormone levels may remain for as long as six… |
Sequence 78graduation speeches, letters they've written to me, or, in many in- stances, essays they wrote for their applications to… |
Sequence 364continuum of human history and to some degree, more or less, a product of her time and education and her medical training. A… |
Sequence 365There are, of course, other classical figures that a cursory study by a somewhat seasoned eye can discover in Montessori'… |
Sequence 366all cases, the empirical method of observation ideally demands that every child who has existed, is existing, or will exist… |
Sequence 369Maria Montessori comes out of a classical and medieval tradition that simply understands, as she did, that to exist fully as… |
Sequence 371example of Marie Curie, "who felt only annoyance when some univer- sity wanted to interrupt her work on radium to… |
Sequence 376Peace 29). But if one wishes to follow her suggestion in a resourceful classroom, how does a teacher present such a vision of… |
Sequence 381instant of a child's appearance in a classroom to the same child's eventual final disappearance at the end of an… |
Sequence 382that final experience, among many adults in the endless past, the standard that always has been offered to children for… |
Sequence 384consciousness of its dignity and worth" (To Educate the Human Poten- tial 21). To the chorus of people who might… |
Sequence 386Emily Dickinson captures the experience of a teacher desperately attempting to encounter the human potential in each child at… |
Sequence 74In the end, nothing in a Montessori space may be irrelevant to Montessori's conception of education. Such a space… |
Sequence 80the structure itself should function for contemporary children as an essential part of the prepared Montessori environment.… |
Sequence 146philosopher with students happens to be Friedrich Nietzsche (1844- 1900). [t is understandable in the sense that Nietzsche… |
Sequence 148would not have been any need for Aristotle, his student, to address those pioneering Platonic difficulties in a likewise grand… |
Sequence 152Aristotle indicates that a human being is "potentially" a noble rational animal. Apparently for him, the… |
Sequence 156cist would accept) that appearances, in a sense, are not the "real" world. But "in reality"… |
Sequence 173rupting the good principles of their original virtuous nature ... but the true, content mortal alone earns and cultivates… |
Sequence 192sapientes, the late arriving, distressed, questioning, deception-loving guests. Who .invited them anyway? God? Probably no one… |
Sequence 44• Figure 7 Figure 8 corresponding rhomboids, and doing the same with the red one, it is clear that the sguare built on the… |
Sequence 150to keep track of all these scrolls. Each book might have multiple scrolls, and they all had to be numbered and organized.… |
Sequence 151• Claudius Ptolemy • Philip of Macedon • Eratosthenes • Parmenius • Solon • Julius Caesar • Pythagoras • Aeschylus •… |
Sequence 127Hence, we have to think that Montessori, who obviously did not know neuroscience, arrived to the same conclusion starting… |
Sequence 262perceptible brush of pursed pilgrim lips, two at a time, rounded in a kiss, or perhaps a slight graze of the hand, creating… |
Sequence 263The School of Athens. Plato is pointing up, indicating his philosophy that truth is knowable through pure ideas and… |
Sequence 111106 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 40, No. 2 • Spring 2015 cated interdependencies. We cannot afford to be ignorant of one half of… |
Sequence 3027 Orr • The (Missing) Politics in Environmental and Sustainability Education straightforward: Politics, policy, and… |
Sequence 7474 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 And play matters. "It would be so simple to allow chil- dren,… |
Sequence 77One piece of evidence of trust: pool all professional development dollars and can- cel contracts and plans for spending that… |
Sequence 8484 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 1 • Winter 2020 and preferences until the day we die. They are potentialities, the raw… |
Sequence 162162 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 162 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 44, No. 2 • Spring 2021 using a grandiose… |
Sequence 36until Einstein and the physicists began to challenge the mechanistic view - was not a scientific age, but a scientistic age.… |
Sequence 3834 Feature Article: The Future of Montessori in America by Sanford Jones Mr. Jones· keynote lecture at the NAMTA Washington… |
Sequence 1612 Socialization and the Development of Self Concept by Jon R. Osterkorn, Ph.D. Dr. Osterkorn '.s integration of… |
Sequence 26give me this lecture when I began to administer. Even if there had been, it might not have helped much; for as Aristotle… |
Sequence 44neglected in the case of his own son. Why then should he be criticized who sets down for the benefit of the public what he… |
Sequence 3834 Language may be studied from the humanistic point of view that it is an adaptive medium whereby the human relates to his… |
Sequence 64N.A.M.T.A. News: NAMTA FURTHERS RFSEARCH EFFORT NAMT A in partnership with Cleveland State University is expanding its… |
Sequence 55Montessori Syntopican: Proposal Abstract b} Mary Boehnlein and David Kahn To date there is no definitive chronicle of… |