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Sequence 11(Gamito Grazzin i Co-Diecor o Traiing ofhe “nematonl Cono fo Moniessori Stcios Faundaion (Borgamo) an AMIcent hoking ahancod… |
Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
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 10Mr. Montessori stressed, however, that these lofty aims can only be sought by the individual exercise of will power. No amount… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 3This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori… |
Sequence 10Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,… |
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 7generosity in his understanding and treatment of others in both private and public life-in marriage and in citizenship. I… |
Sequence 4world," "the new world for a new man," based not on ideas or ideals, but on facts and realities to… |
Sequence 5director (and occupied this charge until his deathi Branches are func- tioning in many European, Asian, and American countries… |
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 13in face, we call the child'man'" (p. 9). With regard to this concept, Montessori's grandson, Dr. Mario… |
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 1THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARIA MONTFSSORI by Mario M. Montessori Jr.· Mario Montessori characterizes the Montessori vision as… |
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 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 16References Egan, Kieran (1992). Imagination in Teaching and Learning. Chicago: U of Chicago. Montessori, Maria (1965; first… |
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 20Science Skits There are many discoveries in science that were, at the time, subject to intense debate among scientists, and… |
Sequence 1F~&A~--------------- MARIA MoNTFSSOm's CONTRIBUTION To nm CULTIVATION OF TIIE MATIIEMATICAL MIND by Mario M.… |
Sequence 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 1DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.… |
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 1PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION by Maria Montessori, MD, and Mario M. Montessori, PhD "Educational reform cannot be… |
Sequence 1THE FOUR PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by Camillo Grazzini Camillo Grazzini presents two charts designed by Maria Montessori to… |
Sequence 15century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the… |
Sequence 26MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 2misleading if it leads someone to believe that cosmic education also applies, or can apply, to other planes of development-… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
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 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 1Barcelona, Spain RESPECT THIS HOUSE by Mario M. Montessori Recently Dr. Montessori gave a series of lectures at the All… |
Sequence 2Laren, Holland THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori The Botanical Cards are one of the items of the Montessori… |
Sequence 2Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this… |
Sequence 1London, England MONTESSORI AND THE DEEPER FREEDOM by Mario M. Montessori and Claude A. Claremont I am inclined to think that… |
Sequence 1London, England THE CHILD BEFORE SEVEN YEARS OF AGE THE CHILD AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF AGE and WHAT CHILDREN TAUGHT DR.… |
Sequence 1SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK AND THE CHILD by Mario M. Montessori edited by Renilde Montessori Last month, in Edinburgh, Professor A.J… |
Sequence 1PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE: A MONTESSORI GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE by Muriel Dwyer Muriel Dwyer, whose sense of mission and single… |
Sequence 18Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,… |
Sequence 2... education researchers have shown that someone who experiences in- terest in a topic also demonstrates more complex… |
Sequence 31REFERENCES Buys Town. Dir. Norman Taurog. Perf. Spencer Tracy. MGM, 1938. Carroll-Abbing, John Patrick. A Chance to Live:… |
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 15grateful have apparently been also self-serving, a strange and intrigu- ing paradox! To begin to see that "an… |
Sequence 22Tire Earthworm. Haughley, Suffolk: The Soil Association, n.d. Fil kin, David. Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: Basic… |
Sequence 13Relationship, to speak somewhat paradoxically, turns out to be the very substance of things. Every entity is in some sense a… |
Sequence 4with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
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 223with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 3organized their personalities and optimized their potentialities: "Man builds himself through working, working with… |
Sequence 12an "animating human spirit" driven to take human form "in or- der to act, to express itself in… |
Sequence 19• internalization of ethical behavior patterns, empathic attitudes, religious and positive cultural values, etc. In the next… |
Sequence 22But at two and a half or three, the little child's mind is in a state of "heavy chaos" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 25surable experience, neither frustrating nor burdening" (Mario M. Montessori, "Psychological Background&… |
Sequence 26The unconscious absorbent mind, paired with the sensitive peri- ods, creates the very mind of the human being in the first… |
Sequence 27opment. As she remarked, in the embryos of mammals, "the first organ to appear is the heart" (Secret 14) and… |
Sequence 28Mario M. Montessori, "Psychological Background" 17). They "become like the things they love&… |
Sequence 29At this later stage, children continue to be led towards maturity by the unconscious intelligence of the sensitive periods,… |
Sequence 30detaches himself from the world in order to attain the power to unite himself with it." (Montessori, Absorbent Mind… |
Sequence 33Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6… |
Sequence 34Montessori, Mario M.,Jr. Education for Human Development. NY: Schocken, 1976. Montessori, Renilde. "Human Education… |
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 1Mario M. Montessori, late 1960s 1957 Advanced (Elementary) Course, London. Mario Montessori is fourth from left in front row… |
Sequence 6A man whose mind is stored with the knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations… |
Sequence 1DR. MONTESSORI' s APPROACH TO LANGUAGE IN THE SECOND PHASE OF THE CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT by Mario M. Montessori Many… |
Sequence 4Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 13that is to bring the developing human through optimal prepared environments for every stage of development. The Farm School is… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 8Marchetti, Maria Teresa. "La scuola per gli adolescenti- IJI." Vita del/'lnfanzia 2.3 (1953) 7+.… |