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Sequence 274Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |
Sequence 279have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 102The process of normalization is similar to what Piaget calls self- initiated activity (cited in Ginsburg & Opper). It… |
Sequence 63We're overflowed with opponents Who we need to defeat. We haven't the luck A team needs to win. But I feel the… |
Sequence 66lfsomething's going to have to bend for Beth Anne, it's rhyme, not the substance of what she's trying to… |
Sequence 10THE CASADEI BAMBINI: A CENTURY CONCEPT by Elizabeth Hall Elizabeth Hall walks readers through early Montessori history, from… |
Sequence 64something like $3,000 between them that year. Later, in her own center in California, Stela helped to train as trainers such… |
Sequence 223handful will know the word Montessori and even fewer wiU appreciate its broad implications. When, in the normal context of… |
Sequence 10THE POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MOVEMENT I will try to tell you a story-a real story, which is really the beginning of the historical… |
Sequence 14WHAT Is Pos1nvE PsYcHotoGY? I've told you what the movement is about, but what is the content? I can at this point only… |
Sequence 106George Washington holding the flame of democracy alive among his shoeless army. Threads weave through time to grand parents… |
Sequence 66you work on these ex- amples it will just fit to- gether and you'll get at least that much, but you won't stray… |
Sequence 133Experiences that are fully engaging involve not only a combination of high challenge and high skill, but also opportunities… |
Sequence 140classes, he said he worked hardest and felt most challenged in his math and science courses, which were his favorite subjects… |
Sequence 161THE GREAT WORK OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM by Thomas Berry Thomas Berry explores the meaning of work from the standpoint of human… |
Sequence 22Different parts of the brain overproduce and prune their synapses at slightly different phases of development. Figure 3 shows… |
Sequence 35know my four-year-old still hasn't quite figured out the difference between a week and a month-it's all kind of the… |
Sequence 38responding with more activity than the right hemisphere even in these very young babies. The left hemisphere is biased for… |
Sequence 66thing, which involve a lot of action and spatial stuff, with the letters and the letter sounds built in. That's the… |
Sequence 118head, 11 Aha! This represents something. This is a sign. This funny whatever represents banana. Therefore if I make that sign… |
Sequence 161as what they may give to their peers, one or two have been known to toss out "I think I've heard better from you… |
Sequence 46universal put-downs, the hurtful and sometimes brutal teasing (that we pass off by saying, "I was only joking&… |
Sequence 114Near 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 144same time develop compassion for others. Laughter and a sense of humor make it possible for adolescents to grow and work… |
Sequence 343What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 352you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 363balance is the profile of the agrarian: The agrarian alone understands that proper balance. We go back to the image of… |
Sequence 371three hundred and you've got two hundred. What did you do wrong?" Or when I had these plum trees, thegreattrag… |
Sequence 376Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |
Sequence 445HUMANITIES PART II: THE ADOLESCENT'S NEED TO DRAMATIZE, FICTIONALIZE, AND ADOPT A RoLE; THE BRIDGES BETWEEN STAGES… |
Sequence 559compared Individual Humanities to a complete life philosophy. It also explains why they have continued to admire and revere… |
Sequence 44In psychological fields this is often referred to as internalizing the good mother and taking this good mother with you. We… |
Sequence 77your job description. You get paid to go shopping. Well, you don't really, but you know, we can try to convince ourselves… |
Sequence 79Do they love them? Yes, they do. Do they want to do those little fasteners? Yes, they do. My granddaughter, at seventeen… |
Sequence 86some simple food-related activities that young children can do at home. I'm working in Japan right now. In Japan, most… |
Sequence 177to be one of being able to put our own needs aside and say, "OK, for the time that I'm in this room, I'm in… |
Sequence 200sive to six- to nine-year-olds: "Wow! I wonder if puppies do that too. I wonder if kittens do that when they're… |
Sequence 202physically what happens to your body when you hit adolescence. I can't talk to boys because I've never experienced… |
Sequence 212A: Yes, you certainly would now. But I think, again, that is a discussion for the adolescent. Q: 1 think of my own son, eight… |
Sequence 213with adolescents who didn't go through this program who were doing internships. I tried to give them some idea of where… |
Sequence 214get older. I don't see it as a one-shot deal. I see this as an ongoing process with a group of kids. Q: I have a… |
Sequence 218exclude the idea of families with a father and a mother as from the picture of love. I don't think you should need to… |
Sequence 51represents human work and the development of the intellect. We ask the question that has been asked throughout time, "… |
Sequence 157that. Normally, I don't stop the activity until everyone does, but David Kahn has only given me one hour to speak. He had… |
Sequence 159Now I said to you at the beginning that I believe strongly in an environmental philosophy of education. One thing that I… |
Sequence 188eminent ecologists and conservation biologists had a similar message. They were speaking a message of love and loss. They… |
Sequence 195challenge. It's a challenge of scale, it's a challenge of place, it's intertem poral, it's in terspatia I… |
Sequence 199So I tried to write a book that covered all of this stuff in a way that was warm, non-technical, and filled with narrative and… |
Sequence 206There are different ways of observing the biosphere. There are knowledge systems of the biosphere that need to be part of… |
Sequence 207olds who know the geological timescale, they'll know local natural history, and they'll know the bio-geochemical… |
Sequence 36The manifestation of a sensitive period in an activity is both preceded by and succeeded by no observable activity. Beforehand… |
Sequence 168Now, of course, not every network is a living system. A chicken wire fence is a network, a fishing net is a network, but… |
Sequence 178then emerged and lived on that stage. The Gaia view is that the very stage was created and is being regulated and maintained… |
Sequence 196copy it, but to hold it up as a mirror of a different approach with similar goals and opportunities. I think it would be very… |
Sequence 19evolve into real Children's Houses instead of what they sometimes appear to be, which is more akin to laboratories. I… |
Sequence 98teenagers-wake up, and they help out, and then the husband goes fishing or hunting for mushrooms, and then he comes back and… |
Sequence 109never called work anything that they themselves originated. That is the typical way in which kids learn about what's work… |
Sequence 132knew that my job was to create a supportive, stimulating learning community for my students, yet I found that in trying to do… |
Sequence 139There came a point in the development of our schools when two trusted staff members sat me down and said, "Terry, you… |
Sequence 144Don't get discouraged with a child. Re- member that the child that comes each morning is not the same as the one that… |
Sequence 26Over four consecutive years both a Casa Dei Bambini and four elementary classes were opened, and by 1952 the school was… |
Sequence 60PSYCHO-GRAMMAR: MONTESSORI'S REFLECTIONS ON GRAMMAR AND PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT by Annette M. Haines Dr. Haines' rich… |
Sequence 81and size? I'm sure, from what I know about stones, that they're not uniform in color, and what about the surfaces of… |
Sequence 195men. They had sixteen or seventeen vice presidents, all world-class or ex-world-class athletes. None of them knew anything… |
Sequence 88• The class size would be thirty to thirty-five children. • A YM would need more space than a traditional class. · The room… |
Sequence 89presented the parents with the plan. There were questions: When will the children have time to play if they are in a… |
Sequence 138We have had a rule for the past two years: Any fiction reading done in or for school must be a classic. This fall a new… |
Sequence 31The organization of this discussion of successful intelligence is that first I'm going to do an introduction, which I… |
Sequence 35as a teacher, or as a resident living in a community, want to be able, in part, to shape the environment-to make it a better… |
Sequence 42become worse at, there are other things that you may become better at. So what you want to do is capitalize on the things you… |
Sequence 43taught by Spanish speakers and given to Spanish speakers in a Spanish-speaking country, so I decided I needed to learn Spanish… |
Sequence 56learning. Assessment also should involve analytical, creative, and practical, as well as memory components. You make the… |
Sequence 58encode learning material more deeply and elaborately because they're being taught in three different ways (analytically,… |
Sequence 61wisdom. And wisdom involves putting together everything I've said today. It's about the use of your successful… |
Sequence 1581. Isolating the object (such as nomenclature work or liturgical signs such as water in baptism) 2. Working exactly (setting… |
Sequence 163a nod of the head, a wink, and a "good garsun [boy in the Irish]" or "good gearrchaille [girl],… |
Sequence 176the fields or exploring the woodlands, playing around the old castles with no adult in sight. My grandfather had a sixth sense… |
Sequence 177I take a great interest in the children's grandparents. Once asked, they love to talk or write about their grandparents… |
Sequence 27a sense of wonder and awe. The interest evoked can be deep, passionate, lasting, and the desire to find out more is driven… |
Sequence 47ELEMENTS OF ERDKINDER AT THE FARM SCHOOL by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker Laurie Ewert-Kroeker demonstrates the general orientation… |
Sequence 77COMMUNITY, FREEDOM, AND DISCIPLINE IN A CARING CLASSROOM by John McNamara John McNamara characterizes adolescents through… |
Sequence 126I accepted a job at the University of Utah partly because of expe- riences that I had in nature. I love the desert and the… |
Sequence 188BKG: Yes. DK: Well, that's a problem for all of us. So could you elaborate on the mystenJ and what your guided intuition… |
Sequence 285soon. But when it comes to the older children, above all, it's a question of an exactness of understand- ing. And that… |
Sequence 353Now what about humanity itself? As we know, at a certain point in the story, we focus on that very. special form of life to… |
Sequence 33We can no longer afford to be right, whether teacher or parent. Being right is simply not important. Even if we know… |
Sequence 111When a child has chosen to work with the geometric solids (not the first presentation, of course), I love to tell the story… |
Sequence 54a lot because of a mere calculation error even though they really understood the concept. What matters is not so much just the… |
Sequence 57helps me to see that they might not be so easy to reconcile. And the third kind of challenge is that 1 have this theory,… |
Sequence 58there are some university instructors who do that as well? They prepare a syllabus before they've met their students!… |
Sequence 63I hope you never forget as long as you live, is, Who cnres? If you ever forget that's the correct answer, it will hold… |
Sequence 64devices and embarrassed about asking for help because they're sup- posed to know this stuff by now. In the worst schools… |
Sequence 70antithetical to genuine, deep learning. Once again we can tell the parents the absence of grades is often a precondition to… |
Sequence 71Yeah, I'm already doing that. Sometimes there's this frozen identity, too, with respect to the school, where we… |
Sequence 80THE ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES OF THE SILENT JOURNEY by Barbara Gordon Bnrbnrn Gordon recounts tlie evol11 tio11 of The Si lent… |
Sequence 84When we decided to redo it, we thought that in the one we had done before, there was something missing. The parents needed a… |
Sequence 85Individual work in the primary. We spend about fifteen minutes in the toddler class, in the primary usually about forty-five… |
Sequence 87Then I will tell a little bit of background on the Jo11r11ey, what it means, talk about the levels of develop- ment, and… |
Sequence 89the Journey to put out the Saturday materials, so that on Friday night everything could be on the shelves just like the… |
Sequence 93Let me tell you something that has been said over and over: "I had such a spiritual experience."… |