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Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of… |
Sequence 1511 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story… |
Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
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 4Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of… |
Sequence 9requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those… |
Sequence 2of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy… |
Sequence 7tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,… |
Sequence 1THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which… |
Sequence 1THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her… |
Sequence 3This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori… |
Sequence 5Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the… |
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 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 3Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is… |
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 1ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal… |
Sequence 5Kahn: When you took the course in England, with Mario Montessori, how did cosmic education become evident to you? Gunawardena… |
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 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 25Reading Analysis The child is shown how words have a particular place in a senrence: subjecr-predicare-objecr-clauses. She… |
Sequence 4In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the… |
Sequence 5names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors… |
Sequence 6books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand… |
Sequence 8names of different animals and plants-wonderful words like "red- winged blackbird" and "white-… |
Sequence 9the sun awakes them in the morning .... But instead of this, we anxiously ask ourselves how we can make a child sleep after… |
Sequence 3There is an interesting complement to these studies that Mario Montessori (1948) describes: The child absorbs a language… |
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 12favorite books or plays. An imagination makes it easier for me to see the ideas behind a story or a character. Most… |
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 1THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl… |
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 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 24art ................... . music ............... . reading ........... . French ............... . Spanish ............. .… |
Sequence 57This is the picture that emerges from the survey data of Median Montessori Middle School. That Median is in only its sixth… |
Sequence 8This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 160This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear… |
Sequence 3In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 10unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 2gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the… |
Sequence 4Development" 1 and more detail in From Childhood to Adolescence (French first edition 1948). What were the… |
Sequence 3COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at… |
Sequence 6materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative… |
Sequence 7is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 9With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ… |
Sequence 12is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts;and,finally,… |
Sequence 15"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
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 5In a Montessori class, there is a continual unfolding of how the world was prepared for humanity and the development of… |
Sequence 4As we listened to the current scientific knowledge and theologi- cal understanding of cosmic evolution, biological evolution,… |
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 1Introduction MARIO MONTESSORI: IN SEARCH OF A DEEPER FREEDOM A LIFE 1 S JOURNEY OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS by David Kahn When… |
Sequence 2"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 5when the teacher observes the child's adaptation to the modern world, the educator becomes educated by just how the… |
Sequence 6often closed his eyes; he seemed to be offering his ideas as a prayer, reaching for something intangible (as reflected in the… |
Sequence 1Mario Montessori standing behind Maria Montessori at the Theosophical Society, 1947. Seated at right: Sir Archibald Nye,… |