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Sequence 15Erikson, E. Identity. Youth and Crisis. (New York: Norton Press, 1968). Erikson, E. The Problem of Ego Identity, Journal of… |
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 22c) S11111u 2, Chap. :J. Cunents and Countel' Curl'ents in Medical Sdencc. Rep1·intecl in Cltild mul F11111i/!f. 1:~:… |
Sequence 23Reprinted as The Duty Of Nu,·sin,g Chilch-en in Child (Ill(/ Fa111i/y Reprint Booklet, The Nm":<ing Mother:… |
Sequence 3sudden seriousness when those in thrall to the Wicked Witch of the West are freed from bondage. While in The Final Alice, a… |
Sequence 10ape-like primates, waddling reptiles, jawless fishes, worm-like inverte- brates, and other creatures deemed even lower or more… |
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 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 20viduals and social organizations to deal with complexity and change in ways which are both adaptive and creative. The emerging… |
Sequence 35its implications for cross-cultural studies. In S. Modgil & C. Modgil (Eds.), .lean Piaget: Consensus and controversy… |
Sequence 36Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The… |
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 12This will always stick in my mind: two men, talking about two black, disabled soldiers who had not been shot by the enemy but… |
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 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 20References Egan, K. (1986). Teaching as story telling: An alternative ap- proach to teaching and curriculum in the elementary… |
Sequence 17Miller, J. B. 0 976). Toward a new psychology of women. Boston: Beacon. Montagu, A. (1986, August 7). Qtd. in Woodstock Times… |
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 19Hellbrugge, T. 0979, Spring). Early social development and proficiency in later life. Tbe NAMTA Q11arter(y, 4<.2), 6-14… |
Sequence 1REvlsITING THE NATIJRAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY FOR THE NINETIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. HERBERT RATNER by David Kahn Kahn… |
Sequence 7gentlemanlike conduct in the late twentieth century is radically differ- ent from what it was in the eighteenth. Let us look… |
Sequence 19Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 21Bremer, J. (1985, Fall). Education as peace. The NAMTA Quar- terly, 11(1), 21-40. Capra, F. (1993). The turning of the tide.… |
Sequence 53gentlemanlike conduct in the late twentieth century is radically differ- ent from what it was in the eighteenth. Let us look… |
Sequence 10Froebe}, F. (1887). The education of man (Trans. W.M. Hailman). New York: Appleton. (Original work published 1886) Hart, R… |
Sequence 15Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam Books. Montessori, M. (1994). The absorbent mind. Oxford: Clio… |
Sequence 3WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,… |
Sequence 14bility. What is it? We do not know, but we must hasten to find out. It must be the child who reveals to us what happens during… |
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 4adult and the children, as these expressions of the spirit pour out of their daily experiences of togetherness-their oneness… |
Sequence 6of the intellect for its own sake. The reasoning mind has a much grander task: The work of humanity that always loves more,… |
Sequence 11We will come to realize that each child has artistic potential and each child will relish the deep satisfaction derived from… |
Sequence 30is because children will enjoy and live more fully and fulfill their potentials. But also because they are more likely to… |
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 10studied, the experience of working with the earth and connecting it to curriculum only enhanced the learning. Despite the… |
Sequence 17us listen to the words of Maria Montessori, for she is reminding us that if we can do what we have just been saying, We find… |
Sequence 15With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains the… |
Sequence 16It is important for us not to change the vision of Dr. Montessori by creating a reductive attitude to what we do, by focusing… |
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 24Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
Sequence 18two great-great-great-grandparents, and so on until you get to the "eighteen greats" level, where you have… |
Sequence 19Hakim, Joy. "Reading, Writing, and ... History." History Mat- ters! (May 1996): 19 pars. 1 Dec. 1998 <… |
Sequence 10birth of new life. "The personality of the mother," she observes, "is characterized by this: with… |
Sequence 6The current spiritual renaissance, even outside traditional reli- gious institutions, shows the necessity and the desire of… |
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 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 14jZr JIJ II e r ~ J ~ ~ J =i Hu - mu - hu - mu - nu - cu - nu - cu - a - pu - a. This, in turn, attracted the attention of… |
Sequence 10Montessori, Maria. The Discovery of the Child. 1948. Trans. S. J. Costelloe. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. Montessori,… |
Sequence 11She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 21• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 13when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 14when first announced. Even after accepting the theory, the scientific community of chemists still had to "beat nature… |
Sequence 78• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 228She "jumped off" into new territory without having a plan in place-and let her commitment to fighting for… |
Sequence 33Montessori, Maria. "Child's Instinct to Work [Lecture, London, 1939]." AMI Communications (1973, #4): 6… |
Sequence 10understanding, the power, the aesthetic grandeur, and the emotional fulfillment needed to heal the damage that has already… |
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 27brain and spinal cord of mammals a very, very long time ago, and had endowed the monkey's limbs with assured, acrobatic… |
Sequence 28Language and the Bra.in. New York: Norton, 1997. Donald, Merlin. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of… |
Sequence 29purpose. That means precisely that history and its purpose cannot make sense to a community without a purpose. If there is no… |
Sequence 13burden for a child to be "bad" or "good." We must relieve every child of that burden and… |
Sequence 4Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 30Graves, Donald. "Making Meaning Clear: The Logic of Revision." Journal of Basic Writing (1981, Fall/Winter… |
Sequence 10It takes a major shift in our cultural sensibilities to understand why Darcy isso deeply affected by her remark. The notion of… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 4just been watching a movie. As I exited, I noticed that many trucks were parked around the perimeter of the camp. Men started… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 18and Holland, where the interest was greatest, Montessori told her followers that she wasn't yet ready to discuss this… |