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Sequence 7We must present the human story, and this goal is the central and overarching history theme of any Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 8In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 9The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then… |
Sequence 10The third thing we should understand is that elementary children were full partners in the creation of cosmic education. The… |
Sequence 11photons, electrons, and their antiparticles. There were some protons and neutrons. But the universe was in chaos-particles… |
Sequence 12What make-believe story can generate greater drama, greater ex- citement, a greater sense of significance-the bigness of it… |
Sequence 13are in fact metal-poor and certainly devoid of life. Only spiral galaxies like the Milky Way and its neighbor in Andromeda are… |
Sequence 14were there many even at first?). This pathetically tiny cell soon became trillions upon trillions of bacteria, and it is the… |
Sequence 15The utter amazement of this life form, bacteria, their greatness, their generosity, their Herculean and transforming labors,… |
Sequence 16a dramatic and attention-grabbing sequence of headings and subhead- ings: Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, ... Cambrian Period,… |
Sequence 17worries me because history as we know it is linear. Our past is an essential part of us, an anchor of huge importance. It… |
Sequence 18moment in time for all time. It is time that has significance for all times and all people. It is a moment in time to be… |
Sequence 19[Interview with Donald Brownlee]. [Minneapolis] Star Tribune February 5, 2000. Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in… |
Sequence 20gogy as Applied to Child Education in "The Children's Houses." 1909. Trans. Anne E. George. New York:… |
Sequence 194 The NAMTA Joumal • Vol. 25, No. 2 • Spring 2000 |
Sequence 2EMERGING ADOLESCENCE: FINDING ONE'S PLACE IN THE COSMOS by Patricia Schaefer Our society tends to view a child emerging… |
Sequence 3If the seeds are sown in the elementary years, they take root in the place of the adolescent years. The important… |
Sequence 4serve in their immediate community, for the social motivation is paramount. They want to help, to be needed, and they will… |
Sequence 5their highest potential. We must always keep in our minds and hearts the image of the citizens of the universe, the child at… |
Sequence 6adolescent so easily observable. For we are a small Montessori school of three hundred children, some thirty of w horn are… |
Sequence 7numinous dynamics of our solar system" (31 ). The word numinous is the key here,for it means filled with a sense of… |
Sequence 8and the beginning phase of adolescence. But first we must always be mindful that this work is based on a cosmology, and the… |
Sequence 9George Washington holding the flame of democracy alive among his shoeless army. Threads weave through time to grand parents… |
Sequence 10Nora: Anyway, I was about halfway there (or so I thought), when I discovered that I was completely lost. Not only had I… |
Sequence 11and it rains for a million years. The rains create the oceans, lakes and rivers. The water and wind start slowly grinding me… |
Sequence 12Erica: I am so lucky to be living, and living in such a great place. Studying the Hubbell Telescope though has made me think… |
Sequence 13Bob, and others in the class got to be familiar with his adventures. Due to demand, Shal reproduced his cartoons and later… |
Sequence 14as their favorite place. This going out beyond the walls of the class- room has satisfied a need they have to explore, to… |
Sequence 15becomes the steward of rooted plants in the garden. Here the task is more defined. The light needed is probably more grounded… |
Sequence 16gain a certain wisdom. Larry refers to it as human-heartedness (the Chinese concept). So while the elementary child thinks,… |
Sequence 17events, and people. The point of origin of the universe is indeed in each of them, in this place and they play it out in a… |
Sequence 18with the gifts of its mission of free- dom, its colorful history of different peoples, its art and literature that tell that… |
Sequence 1112 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 2 • Spring 2000 |
Sequence 2ENCOUNTERING POSITIVE VISION ON THE THIRD PLANE by Larry Schaefer Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment,… |
Sequence 3other and staff in positive ways. They get up in the morning at 6:30 or 7:00 a.m., and lights are out at 10:00 p.m., when they… |
Sequence 46. Every student is expected to be part of the evening meeting and discussion. There are always three parts to this meeting.… |
Sequence 5perceptive questions they ask, and how quickly they respond to challenges and get involved. 2. THEATER COMPANY Every year… |
Sequence 6the reality of the noble and the ignoble, and the power of human joy and suffering. They are wonderfully intuitive. They work… |
Sequence 7debate taught me how on fire their minds could get and what powerful thinkers they were-or at least powerful arguers-how full… |
Sequence 87. Could a person whom no one liked still be likable? 8. Are there truly bad people, truly good people? An evil person? What… |
Sequence 9Jn the morning they set up their business, and in the afternoon they sell. The mall closes at 6:00 p.m. Who were the… |
Sequence 10There are at least five unique powers of this developmental level, ages twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. 1. It is an age of… |
Sequence 11Here is a brief portrait of the graduates of Lake Country School at age fourteen. These graduates are very sought after by… |
Sequence 12Every staff person at Lake Country School will tell you that they have met the noble adolescent. Every adolescent guide who… |
Sequence 13REVIEW OF THE GREAT WoRK BY THOMAS BERRY by Gerard Leonard Thomas Berry's latest book, The Great Work, is a very… |
Sequence 14for creative transformation. The great danger for the human species in the present moment of grace is that: If the outer… |
Sequence 15tale," a vast geographical panorama, and shows how the different cultures and civilizations have variously expressed… |
Sequence 1THE GREAT 128 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 2 • Spring 2000 |
Sequence 2THE MEADOW ACROSS THE CREEK by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry is an eloquent spokesperson for the current crisis of humans… |
Sequence 3Perhaps it was not simply this moment that made such a deep impression upon me. Perhaps it was a sensitivity that was… |
Sequence 4of interrelated activities that take place here, the more mysterious it all becomes. The more meaning a person finds in the… |
Sequence 5This experience we observe even now in the indigenous peoples of the world. They live in a universe, in a cosmological order,… |
Sequence 6become insensitive toward the natural world and do not realize just what we are doing. Yet if we observe our children closely… |
Sequence 7lost the universe itself. We have achieved extensive control over the mechanistic and even the biological functioning of the… |
Sequence 8however, that in the political and legal orders we have never been able to give up our invocation of the more sublime… |
Sequence 9itself with special intimacy. Individually and in their relations with each other, these are moments when the high meaning of… |
Sequence 10understanding, the power, the aesthetic grandeur, and the emotional fulfillment needed to heal the damage that has already… |
Sequence 1The Orion Nebula 138 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 2 • Spring 2000 |
Sequence 2"IN A BEGINNING ... ": QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND KABBALAH by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams Joel… |
Sequence 3Most educated people today have an essentially Newtonian pic- ture of the universe as a place, devoid of all human meaning, in… |
Sequence 4As the universe expands, our neighboring galaxies will remain our neighbors forever, but farther out the expansion of space is… |
Sequence 5which was moving relativistically then, may be composed of two kinds of neutrinos-at least, that is what's suggested by… |
Sequence 6ences in the universe reflect these quantum events, enormously in- flated. This is the best theory cosmologists have for the… |
Sequence 7Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered in 1965 that heat radiation from the Big Bang itself, called cosmic background radia… |
Sequence 8not be valid) that the universe may not be as old as some of the stars in our galaxy. But on bal- ance the theory of… |
Sequence 9sometimes the universe actually embodies a theorist's dreams. When this happens, it can have the force of a religious… |
Sequence 10up with, expanding faster and faster for all eternity, unlimited by the speed of light or by lack of space. In this… |
Sequence 11inflating was destined to die out. Down the hill of potential energy Hokhmah now rolled, unable to regain eternal potential,… |
Sequence 12If 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 13problems of their religion, especially the question of the nature of God. The kabalists used every resource they had-not only… |
Sequence 14Kabbalah is an example of a cosmology resembling our own that successfully penetrated and enriched the lives of a society. In… |
Sequence 15described as either something scientifically observed or something spiritually experienced. A functional cosmology must do… |
Sequence 16transition: As vastly different value systems collide, all consistent value systems are collapsing. We cannot foresee the… |
Sequence 17like to be God. It cannot be considered a normal human pace. In a finite environment, inflation cannot continue, however… |
Sequence 1_.._,.. __ _ "A surtlinq .,_. .•• ..-.,lht ... l1n9ua9e, and human culture FUii I. IIUH 156 The NAMTA Joumal •… |
Sequence 2THE HAND-THOUGHT-LANGUAGE NEXUS by Frank R. Wilson Frank Wilson's scholarly book depicts cognitive scientists and… |
Sequence 3to Link together a small number of basic and widely accepted ideas concerning the origins of human intelligence. What exactly… |
Sequence 4purposes relating to their social lives and to their survival. There can be no doubt that human ancestors were influenced by… |
Sequence 5The partnership of language and culture is so deeply woven into human history, and so compelling a force in our own… |
Sequence 6ROBIN DUNBAR'S THEORY OF BRAIN GROWTH, LANGUAGE, AND INTELLIGENCE Robin Dunbar, who is professor of biology at the… |
Sequence 7Plotting neocortex size alone against stable group size yielded a near I y perfect progression: The larger the "tribe… |
Sequence 8demanded by one-on-one grooming. A single human being, asserts Dunbar, tends to maintain a circle of friends (people from whom… |
Sequence 9behavioral profiles form the basis for inferences about the "cognitive architecture" 7 of the brain at each… |
Sequence 10scratches his head, suddenly goes red in the face and gasps, drops the paper, turns around, and starts running in the… |
Sequence 11who can fix it, and so I go after him. About a half mile out I see this Mars bar wrapper on the trail-fresh!-and I figure I… |
Sequence 12is not stupid. Mountain goats are among the most successful of the large mammals and flour- ish under environmental condi-… |
Sequence 13technology: the wheel, the internal-combustion engine, and construc- tion by subassemblies, electricity, telecommunications,… |
Sequence 14forelimb and hand, and an unrestrained tendency in apes-chimpan- zees, in particular-to exploit the hand's manipulative… |
Sequence 15approximately when the transition between H. erectus and H. sapiens occurred. Anatomically, cranial capacity averaged 1,000 cc… |
Sequence 16Mimetic skill or mimesis rests on the ability to produce conscious, self-initiated, representational acts that are in-… |
Sequence 17Gestural language, however, was almost certainly employed in communication, and Donald allows this as a likely form of mimetic… |
Sequence 18gence; it also shows us how society itself-culture-became part of the dynamic process of selection. HENRY PLOTKIN'S… |
Sequence 19genetic code in a few unsuspecting adults, and (magically one night) brought one absolutely unique version of it to life in… |
Sequence 20Plotkin calls this process-the genetic device whose operation produces longevity in families of genes through the generation,… |
Sequence 21are several ways by which the problem of change can be confronted .... [One] is by giving rise to change within phenotypes;… |
Sequence 22Given that language is unique to our species, that must mean that some part of that portion of our genetic makeup that is… |
Sequence 23ogy, who had until 1959 persuasively contended that language exists in society and that children acquire it entirely on the… |
Sequence 24Within the past few years a record number of books and scientific articles concerning the origins of human language have… |
Sequence 25While strongly agreeing with Deacon's proposal that lan- guage must be understood as an effect of a complex co-evolution… |
Sequence 26closure of, the narrowing gap between Merlin Donald's mimetic culture and its successor, the mythic culture. 19 Rather,… |