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Sequence 1THE FARM EXPERIENCE: ITS IMPORTANCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE by Richard Barker Richard Barker's perceptive correlations… |
Sequence 686 it probably kept happening for a long time. And whatever it was, we know that it made the boy feel very cold. One day the… |
Sequence 18syndrome may take months, even years, to develop), and, until symp- toms are present, one can never be certain whethel'… |
Sequence 3weeks befol"e I found out what was happening. They finally admitted to me that they were banging on the wall between… |
Sequence 3Baylol", Byrd: I don't remembel' which book l found fil'st, but since then, it's become an… |
Sequence 1MURIEL DWYER: ON THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT by David Kahn Although Ms. Dwyer has written a short pamphlet entitled Key to… |
Sequence 4bedside table was a prayer book, and a new book by Luciano Mazzetti (speaking at the Summer Washington Conference) and a note… |
Sequence 9behavior by males is absolutely unknown in the animal kingdom except in chimps and humans. So if one is interested in the… |
Sequence 6projects, ranging from elaborate drawings of Bronze Age armor to an animated cartoon, from epic poetry to a detailed… |
Sequence 6Fundamental to the hunter-gatherer adaptation is the belief that either we will all live together or we will die together.… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 6are able to visualize any given lrnowledge. By 18 you have envisioned the whole universe. Then at 18 you decide what your… |
Sequence 10Kahn: That's very interesting. Who are some of the people you tell stories about besides George Washington? Gunawardena… |
Sequence 2not exist externally in nature, but were essentially insrrwnents of the mind. We also knew that it was crucial to make… |
Sequence 4"textbooked" it, but only rarely did we cast it, in terms of intriguing and interesting questions. So, if… |
Sequence 5kind of question, one subject matter, others are engaged by another set. You know that when you want to get a group of kids… |
Sequence 3talk about these things in a much more differentiated way. It's not just their changing or their not changing; they are… |
Sequence 12The Struggle to Restructure This, chen, brings me to my ninth point. It seems to me chat at the fundamental levd, school… |
Sequence 2GL. How best do you see us helping children, especially the adolescents who are moving towards taking their place in the… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
Sequence 9GL. So is there a place there then for, say, the humanities? TB. Well, definitely. GL. You've talked about the face that… |
Sequence 12GL. Now, what about traditional spiritual values? We don't have religion in our schools any more, and it seems chat we… |
Sequence 2he had also been identified as learning disabled. He resented being taken out of the classroom for tutoring sessions several… |
Sequence 8sensitive periods. These givens are powered by a kind of life force energy that she called horme. With the powers infants and… |
Sequence 4At the same time, there's an emphasis on the children understanding their relationship to society. There is a respect for… |
Sequence 7So we read The Buuer Battle Book. It was Dr. Seuss' metaphor for the Cold War and the devel.opment of atomic weapons. Our… |
Sequence 13I remember Margaret Stephenson talking in training about the idea of total reading. She defined it as understanding the… |
Sequence 5test tales in which you must listen and then repeat it exactly, never saying "a" when you should say &… |
Sequence 7around Germany among the people whose dialects still preserved some of the old forms, as some dialects do in many parts of… |
Sequence 9with them and know them. The dominant animals have, of course, changed a great deal. You get the dominance of the bear in the… |
Sequence 10Another one is "those youngest best," which means, historically, that iri a matriarchate, the youngest son… |
Sequence 11have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 17The other type is contagious magic, which says that things once in contact are always in contact. Now, that is at the root of… |
Sequence 1THE PEDAGOGY OF TIME by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Larry Scbaefer's keynote lecture at the 1993 Summer Institute, History as… |
Sequence 3REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 57REINVENTING CIVILITY by Lawrence Schaefer, PhD Dr. Schaefer calls for "a renaissance in civility," a return… |
Sequence 5BACKGROUND OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS Teacher Background The two teachers who were trained in Montessori methods, A and B at… |
Sequence 3The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 9results in "teaching for intelligence." That puts the cart before the horse. If you want to put the cart and… |
Sequence 5like me came to say that we're human beings, we're not just calcula- tors to fit into IBM jobs, we're human… |
Sequence 8infants. In fact, they do it prenatally, that's what we now know. They're not tabulae rasae; they never were tabulae… |
Sequence 9In coming to this bigger model, this bigger metaphor, I'm trying to fish around for people who seem to have their hands… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 14story? The brain knows that the spiritual feelings that people have are important. You have to deal with that in some way. In… |
Sequence 15If you're a Bell Curve thinker, you think that a quarter of the people don't even have intel- lect and most of… |
Sequence 17and needs, then you have to create the environment. Even if it's not necessary to get a job at IBM, that's okay; if… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 9each plane, is where children have opportunities to engage in and implement their expanding humanness, this hierarchical… |
Sequence 5234-235). In a Montessori elementary class, the children are allowed to form groups; most of their work is done in groups.… |
Sequence 25unique. Even the staunchest believer in The One Right Way had a hard time choosing. Enunciation exercises These offer an… |
Sequence 32University of Vermont, where they held 750 high school Latin stu- dents spellbound in a gym during a presentation at Vermont… |
Sequence 1FLOW AND EDUCATION by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi PART ONE David [Kahn] is right. I told him that everybody should call me Mike… |
Sequence 12little defensive self, but you are part of something bigger, larger. If you sing in a choir or play with a group, a symphony… |
Sequence 13The interesting thing is that when those conditions are there, people tend to want to do what they did to get that feeling,… |
Sequence 15skills, then you would be bored. The flow experience seems to occur in that diagonal; in fact, it does occur in the diagonal… |
Sequence 19they are so remote that they have really nothing to do with this moment, this class, this particular moment of the day. Your… |
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 7things you could do. One is increasing complexity; the other, going back to your skill level and not taking on the new… |
Sequence 6becomes clear. But the point is that you can't have that insight unless you have prepared for it for a long time. And… |
Sequence 3covery, an interpretation, and an approach-a dynamic understand- ing of the child-and not a recipe. Too often our students… |
Sequence 1THE PREPARED ENVIRONMENT by Eduardo J. Cuevas In this summary of his workshop session, Eduardo Cuevas explores what really… |
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 25you saturate a child in an environment of so-called logical conse- quences, that child, if he grows up and thinks he can get… |
Sequence 26quently rewarded or praised are somewhat less generous than their peers. The effect is most pronounced when they are rewarded… |
Sequence 28WHY REWARDS FAIL How come? Very quickly, let me suggest a couple of possible reasons (see Figure 2). If you want more on any… |
Sequence 29"Do this and you'll get that." Ultimately, that feels punitive. Analo- gously, I don't have… |
Sequence 30There is one way to take a bad thing and make it much worse. You're going to have to bring me back sometime for me to… |
Sequence 31than limiting the number available, but not as good as moving away from the reward and punishment approach altogether. There… |
Sequence 32But the fact that young children are so hungry for our approval-are they not?-puts an enormous burden on our shoulders not to… |
Sequence 34similarly ineffective because it gets nowhere near where the trouble is. It's a one-size-fits-all solution. Many of us… |
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 38And isn't more motivation what we want? If this were true, it would make perfect sense to follow the Pizza Hut executives… |
Sequence 45wants to be; it is an active way of taking her away from thinking about that and getting her focused on my face. Some little… |
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 49set foot in the classroom. And you can tell partly that it's fake because of tones of voice. Three-year-olds can smell a… |
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 57had they not had a democratic class meeting about something appar- ently irrelevant like how do we want to decorate our room.… |
Sequence 6little children, these little four-year-olds and five-year-olds, seven-, eight-, nine-year-olds. They sound like adults when… |
Sequence 7which caused Suzuki to place heavy emphasis on environment over intelligence, and that's why, to be a Suzuki student, he… |
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 12visitor you'd be swept off your feet when you see what's happening with children. It interests me as to what they… |
Sequence 14'I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to pay attention to that anymore.' That's what this is… |
Sequence 15. . . in all of these approaches is a deep re-spect for the living reality of the children that we work with-that we use… |
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 12spend the next hour talking about complexity in the development of the human being and complexity at the psychological level.… |
Sequence 15are abandoning their forms of music because learning how to play a pipe or a mandolin is much harder than turning on a… |
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 26the stars, and she couldn't sleep all night, she was so mesmerized by the immensity that opened up in front of her that… |
Sequence 8corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 12Let me now tum to the last part of my morning lecture: the cultural ramifications of this economic Renaissance. Farmers were… |
Sequence 21quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 2And I said, "What do you mean?" And he said, "Well, you've got this Wal-Mart." Well… |
Sequence 5var, and you mix the two and combine the best of human and natural possibilities. I'll give you an example of what I… |
Sequence 8I thought, "Oh, this is stupid." Then they said, "What are you going to do with these coyotes?… |
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 13Oeconomicus-that one person can take a piece of ground and do something with it and another person simply can't. Believe… |