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Sequence 3are meant to be - is only a classroom full of Montessori materials and children's furnitw-e. It lacks the spirit of… |
Sequence 5a permissive role while her mother was more demanding. She was an oldest child and could have felt upstaged by an adoption in… |
Sequence 9just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
Sequence 15specialists. And in their differences lie the roots of their cooperation. In their cooperation lie the roots of our… |
Sequence 2The woman who had opened our session was not satisfied with my summary. "I'm not talking about a little… |
Sequence 3weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 2to accept the fact of evolution. Darwin lies beside Newton in Westmin- ster Abbey for this great contribution. His theory of… |
Sequence 4nineteenth-century reaction; and, while I'm not a conventional believer, I don't consider myself irreligious.… |
Sequence 2watching it grow tall and straight and bring forth beautiful leaves. And then, just as it is ready to flower, someone moves it… |
Sequence 3forward to a big future at Syracuse University. ot to mention along the way I've found a great boyfriend and earned… |
Sequence 9MORE: I thought we said friendship .... The Dean of St. Paul's offers you a post; with a house, a servant and fifty… |
Sequence 7feelings of others. Why couldn't he pursue his mission and still be accepted by others? Seems to me he'd have a… |
Sequence 8Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I… |
Sequence 9Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a grand style would fail where experience and feelings… |
Sequence 10Ms. A: Well, man does some things that don't require a body. Leader: Such as ... Ms. A: We think. And therefore thinking… |
Sequence 9cannot produce children because first you have to reach maturity. If you attempt to do something that a mature person does,… |
Sequence 1COAUTION OF ~ENTIAL SCHOOLS by Michael Goldman In straight-forward language, Michael Goldman challenges the conference to… |
Sequence 1must repair." I think that quote speaks co our condition very directly. Those words are rather different from the… |
Sequence 5new insights or beliefs rather than the other way around, although learning styles differ for people. The brute sanity… |
Sequence 2she and her students would look better. This has not achieved a meaningful improvement in instruction or achievement. Those… |
Sequence 6have a problem co explain. We know that babies are geniuses universally. We find ic in Piagec, but unfonunacely he didn't… |
Sequence 9S. I Hiyakawa, who was my president out at San Francisco State, is a wonderful person. When Dr. Hiyakawa was running for… |
Sequence 11we can teach them something. The whole parent issue is tied up because if we really care about parents, then we're going… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
Sequence 2here only about the part chat goes on in schools. That's partly why I say "to help cultivate" rather… |
Sequence 7dependent. We depend on what other people think and on "looking good." We sometimes feel used or possessed… |
Sequence 12movements at all times, not just at school. We learned to notice small details, and we learned to give great lessons. We… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 15There is onJy one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women… |
Sequence 19Over the years, I have used these games with children from a broad socio-economic range, and I'm always pleased to… |
Sequence 10teachers of history. We must become students of history because a knowledge of the past is essential to thinking clearly. I… |
Sequence 5nothing; we can expand the idea of doing something to include providing rewards. These reformulations are improvements, but… |
Sequence 51Twenty-two schools from the sample group responded to the ques- tion. There was some ambiguity in the way the question was… |
Sequence 2it easier for a child to learn to use similar approaches in other situations-such as school. Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla, a… |
Sequence 14One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 17within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 95within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 140One elementary school head in an affluent Midwestern suburb recently told me that children from "normal"… |
Sequence 152it easier for a child to learn to use similar approaches in other situations-such as school. Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla, a… |
Sequence 7faculty without increasing the number of students. I'm sure there are creative solutions which could reduce the number of… |
Sequence 7together. You can't look at the intelligences as the first thing on your list. You have to look at the real-world… |
Sequence 4fore, we ought to give thought to the metaphors we use. If we don't have an ar- ticulated metaphor, then we ought to… |
Sequence 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 10You want them to get busy with all the things I saw out here in the exhibits. You want them to see a banquet out there. You… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 12duplicating famous experiments of history and others being the inventions of the students themselves. They seem to be going… |
Sequence 2But I pray that somehow the memories will remain. Of work, of rain, of chill Of darkness and of light. Memories of love… |
Sequence 9was one of the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. I really felt as though I was living with nature, without worrying about… |
Sequence 3first, that I couldn't dance and appeared to be devoid of any sense of rhythm; second, that I was totally inept at… |
Sequence 9"Well, he did give us a good idea for the story, but ... " "Let's tell the group. Children,… |
Sequence 9One other characteristic that's very important is that when people get really involved in something that turns out to be… |
Sequence 11something, you're probably going to slow down compared to the others. If you are climbing a mountain and you start… |
Sequence 23probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
Sequence 25made a miserable passage in the slow part of that movement." He went back to play the second part of the concert and… |
Sequence 5Phases of the Creative Process In fact, as you probably know, the creative process is usually seen as made up of four phases… |
Sequence 7That lasted for a while. In this century, in addition to artists, we began to think of scientists as creative, which is again… |
Sequence 18A: Gatekeepers usually develop historically in very funny ways. You don't know exactly who will be entitled to be a… |
Sequence 8The ability to reflect on the broader consequences of action, and thus to tolerate experience that is entropic, applies to… |
Sequence 9The ability to stand solitude goes hand in hand with emancipa- tion from the peer group. Many older adolescents seem to have… |
Sequence 9and working with are basically the topic for this morning. I'm going to go over them quickly now and then come back to… |
Sequence 11here's what I'm going to do to you," or I say, "Do this and you'll get that," I am… |
Sequence 24Fourth, punishment gets people to think almost exclusively about their own self-interest. Whenever we talk about"… |
Sequence 36a different direction, to teach you everything about motivation that I know on one overhead (see Figure 3). It took me a while… |
Sequence 37two years old; her lips still move when she reads, but we're OK with that. My two-year-old is doing what two-year-olds do… |
Sequence 40appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Deci, 1971). But I find people are more interested, for some… |
Sequence 43thumb is that the more you want kids to want to do something, the more you would avoid rewards at all costs because of what… |
Sequence 47approve of what you've done. You've met my standards." What you're doing is merely helping her experi… |
Sequence 48We do it with infant rooms. "Good clapping!" Please. Fortu- nately, at the infant level they're too… |
Sequence 50BREAKING OUT OF DICHOTOMIES By the way, when you talk to parents, one of the things you have to do is have them break out of… |
Sequence 54But in this second-grade class, the kids were into this. One kid came up, when it was her turn to speak, and talked about… |
Sequence 55develop self-discipline, what they mean is to get the child to introject, to use the psychoanalytic language, or swallow whole… |
Sequence 3It set me on a path of discovery, I guess, because I'm attracted to people who are what I call great teachers. I usually… |
Sequence 8requires it; it requires that we dialogue. If you dialogue, you've got to be culturally salient. I think you will hear in… |
Sequence 11that-and I emphasize the i-n-g, do-ing that-not can do that-it's always doing that. The brain is in a constant search for… |
Sequence 2SELF AND EVOLUTION by Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi Current views of evolution presented at the Epic of Evolution conference… |
Sequence 3Just so that you know why my name is so long, let me explain it and parse it to make it easier to remember. It is made up of… |
Sequence 6However, at this point we are in an interesting situation-as many of the speakers pointed out in the past three days-we are in… |
Sequence 10Now is there any kind of guidance among the various scenarios of the future that we may or may not endorse through our… |
Sequence 22For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |
Sequence 29good because they didn't have the interest. So if the parents just provide routine opportunities without knowing what… |
Sequence 9Diversification also allows you to regiment the work year so that workers-your family or your hired laborers, in the case of… |
Sequence 16digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 17to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 20own culture. We're better people than that"-not to say, "Oh, don't do that. We've got to go… |
Sequence 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 6told by the local EPA that he had some type of wild rat colony on his farm. The man was farming his land, and he had to cease… |
Sequence 7rational thought, philosophical systems, a sense of Western culture- are all absent there, replaced by a therapeutic… |
Sequence 9that skepticism to everything-like Bill Clinton's talk. Everybody thought it was a wonderful talk, but it was a God-… |
Sequence 10I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It's always going to be true.… |
Sequence 12technology offered? But our family got together and said, "It's just like that orchard out there. There's… |
Sequence 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
Sequence 17"No, I'm not the most vital part of the classroom environment at all. In fact, I love the whole idea of being… |
Sequence 14could be more difficult than skating along on a thin blade over hard ice or learning the samba? People love difficulty. I… |
Sequence 9The music created a feeling of life. Picture # 2: This picture is of a particle that was left and joining with a negative.… |
Sequence 11assimilated from the environment, without any need for direct instruc- tion." As you know, Montessori could be… |
Sequence 17What happens when an idea for doing something ends up not working? A learnable moment is born, because the child now realizes… |
Sequence 32What happens when an idea for doing something ends up not working? A learnable moment is born, because the child now realizes… |
Sequence 182assimilated from the environment, without any need for direct instruc- tion." As you know, Montessori could be… |