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Sequence 8final point. It is the passages that characterize the Montessori Method. If we say the passages are not the important thing we… |
Sequence 13The most peneti-ating statement of this universal driving force found in all living things is that of Aristotle, the father of… |
Sequence 23Reprinted as The Duty Of Nu,·sin,g Chilch-en in Child (Ill(/ Fa111i/y Reprint Booklet, The Nm":<ing Mother:… |
Sequence 8land, to support future races. "21 The emotional depiction of coral as part of a cosmic legacy of doing right by… |
Sequence 9stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental… |
Sequence 2The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really… |
Sequence 2Maria Montessori was well versed in philosophy. Her footnotes include allusions to Sequin, Tolstoi, Froebal, Pascal, Poincare… |
Sequence 6Montessori and the Humanities means a clarification of goals. We have a saying in Montessori - "Montessori is an aid… |
Sequence 2we have discovered ourselves, over generations, to be. As Maria Montessori-and earlier, Aristotle-understood, the natu- ral… |
Sequence 5The great works of the human mind in the western intellectual tradi- tion fulfill this requirement in a preeminent way. The… |
Sequence 1Teaching, Learning, and Their Counterfeits (1976; 1987) by Mortimer Adler In "Teaching, Learning, and Their… |
Sequence 2There is a broad spectrum of interest in the six year old, and Mont- essori suggests accordingly that we must sow as many… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 11The humanities also deal with the interpersonal. The child learns to discuss, to interpret, to act out what he knows,… |
Sequence 12all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 2The quiet in the class when the children were at work was complete and moving. No one had enforced it; and what is more, no… |
Sequence 7generosity in his understanding and treatment of others in both private and public life-in marriage and in citizenship. I… |
Sequence 5from tomes of scope and sequence which compel schools into a blind confor- mity. The reform of education in the Montessori… |
Sequence 1THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if… |
Sequence 8We could cooperatively establish a curriculum using as a guide the student's goals, interests, and needs. Coming out of a… |
Sequence 12Bue I think there were other aspects that affected the good testers as well. They began co talk about tests, about "… |
Sequence 13Montessori years that come before-for what is laid out in the middle school years as we watch our children bec.ome adults is a… |
Sequence 12at five years of age has become an intelligent being, must have gone through a constructive evolution { TIii! Fonnation of Ma,… |
Sequence 1HAPP~ REvlSITED by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spmt the last 25 years pursuing an understanding of… |
Sequence 1MORAL EDUCATION: A CONVERSATION WTIH ARIS'fOil.E by Steven S. Tigner The fallowing light-hearted rendition of Aristotle… |
Sequence 2here only about the part chat goes on in schools. That's partly why I say "to help cultivate" rather… |
Sequence 12University of California Press, 1980), pp. 395-435. 31 Plato Apology 29e. 32 See, e.g., Plato Protagoras 360d: courage is… |
Sequence 11Obviously, many more activities or variations on activities can ease the transition into traditional education. However,… |
Sequence 1NEEDS OF THE ELEMENTARY-AGE CHILD MONTESSORI PRINCIPLES, STRATEGIES, AND THEIR PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS by Rajendra K.… |
Sequence 1THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT: FRAMEWORKS FOR INVENTION by David Kahn Extrapolating from the primary and elementary curriculum… |
Sequence 2Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the… |
Sequence 4the earth. The origin of life on earth, of humans, farms, cities, and empires is personified in the great lessons as invention… |
Sequence 16invention, it also provides the holistic, integrated basis for clarifying complex tensions between human and natural systems.… |
Sequence 8ogy (covering all of cosmic time back to I 0·30 seconds) is almost over, and Act Two (the attempt to elucidate what happened… |
Sequence 9Mover, itself unmoved. This Mover he called God. Aristotle's God was not the sort of being one would be inclined to… |
Sequence 6are lo be transformed; instead of frustrating the learner's eager desire for work, as they so often do today, they are to… |
Sequence 7is commonplace to think of moving from teaching to administration as a promo- tion! Benjamin Franklin knew better, as he… |
Sequence 15The group read and reread books and essays already assigned to their students, such as Ibsen 's An Enemy of the People… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 1Orn TRUTIIS, NEW CHIIDREN by Edwin J. Delattre, Ph.D. Holding up such exemplars of intellectual diligence as Helen Keller and… |
Sequence 4eve'fythlng' turns on the na- ture of the habits, Including ha&its of language, we Jorm by accident and… |
Sequence 6Surely, this is one of the lessons we as teachers should convey to our students by example and deed, and in our words. James… |
Sequence 19resolute without becoming impenetrable to evidence and losing all traces of intellectual and moral humility. It means, as one… |
Sequence 6We must avoid placing limits on what a child will want to learn and digest by utilizing formalized curriculum scope and… |
Sequence 20Science Skits There are many discoveries in science that were, at the time, subject to intense debate among scientists, and… |
Sequence 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 1INmooucnoN THE NATURAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY Herbert Ratner's unique portrayal of nature's design of the fami~y… |
Sequence 9These differences set the female apart to be the primary caretaker of the newborn. Since nature fashioned the mammalian… |
Sequence 18If the ecologic era bears any message it is this: When nature is treated well she reciprocates. A persuasive case can be… |
Sequence 1REvlsITING THE NATIJRAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY FOR THE NINETIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. HERBERT RATNER by David Kahn Kahn… |
Sequence 4II little real knowledge of it. Instead, it is lo those three essays, and in particular Lo "The Erdkinder,"… |
Sequence 10ment, parents often feel differently about continuing if it is an option to go directly into high school after finishing… |
Sequence 12old were eliminated from the.sample. With this correction, the median size is 25 students (n=19). In other words, eliminating… |
Sequence 19schools. Maybe not in our schools, but perhaps in open schools, etc. They should also be academically competent in the… |
Sequence 1DARE TO Do ERDKINDER: REPORT FROM CHICAGO by John Long "What type of adult does civilization need?" This… |
Sequence 2third plane? Are we not immersed in some necessary creative tension as we strive to bind our present explorations with her… |
Sequence 121990, p. 37). The fact that the Montes- sori teachers interviewed seemed to spend more time than traditional teachers on… |
Sequence 1THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND THE MONTESSORI ADOLESCENT by Linda Davis Linda Davis traces the Montessori view of… |
Sequence 2gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 13with what had become a luscious, teeming mountain of fertilizer and abundance. He looked up from a vast shovel-full, and,… |
Sequence 4Chapter Two, "An Overview of the Primary Years," is an expert portrait of the prepared environment for the… |
Sequence 3their shelves, place a few toys and mats in the middle of the room, and establish a day care unit for babysitting during the… |
Sequence 18In any case, when the conditions of flow are present, people tend to report an optimal state of inner harmony that they desire… |
Sequence 19THE CONSEQUENCES OF FLOW There are many reasons why experiencing flow is beneficial. Per- haps the most important is also the… |
Sequence 9The prepared environment must allow for social interaction and be multi-aged. Research sug- gests that "the human… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 18know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
Sequence 4Mart 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 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 2... education researchers have shown that someone who experiences in- terest in a topic also demonstrates more complex… |
Sequence 8now to find out how to do it, from people who set up farms. You must take time now to look in books. You are the makers of… |
Sequence 18two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
Sequence 5phers from Socrates, in the Apology, referring to himself as a midwife; through the early Medi- eval period, beginning… |
Sequence 6is why they start a search for know ledge of that Truth. Such is also the case with Montessori's search into how children… |
Sequence 17not 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 13Relationship, to speak somewhat paradoxically, turns out to be the very substance of things. Every entity is in some sense a… |
Sequence 10Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
Sequence 8participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 18They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 3In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 21• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 78• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 96In the Erdkinder, the cosmic vision of the Montessori elementary years is made more conscious, more concrete. It is… |
Sequence 195They have used plants and animals: for food, for paper, forcloth- and have spun the ea terpillar' s silk in to scarves… |
Sequence 205participation within shared organizational forms. So unlike the old way, where each subject was treated as a separate entity… |
Sequence 229Dr. Montessori's concept of the absorbent mind and particularly her recommendations a bout the birth-to-three stage were… |
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 2COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 7of his or her own favored styles of communicating with others and of which styles of others' expressive communication… |
Sequence 4Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 9what they said; some were pessimistic. The adolescent needs some- thing more than logic to have an optimistic view of… |
Sequence 2emerged with prominent Montessori educators of the suburbs and cities deciding to move into the "third plane"… |
Sequence 4appear more like a traditional junior high in miniature in some cases. But beneath this veneer of traditional time blocks and… |
Sequence 7Place-a place for adolescents to experience as a whole: a place that is an island of green for beholding, a place to work and… |
Sequence 11ing examples of spontaneous discipline through visiting ex- isting Montessori adolescent programs, consolidating past… |
Sequence 5Near the end of the war I leaned toward the Japanese side. And when the war ended I was sad. I was sad and relieved. I was… |
Sequence 9We need to provide an environ- ment where children can experi- ence community, affirmation, love, and support first and… |
Sequence 16ERDKINDER: THE EXPERIMENT FOR THE EXPERIMENT Interview with Margaret E. Stephenson and A.M. Joosten The followi11g… |
Sequence 12... adolescents prove to be good teachers for small children who feel a certain repulsion for very adult personalities who… |