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Sequence 2This interdisciplinary approach to the study of the humanities makes full use of the characteristics of young adolescents to… |
Sequence 1TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary… |
Sequence 5matter at that, whatever direction our imagination may take, it shall discover no empty place ... our imagination seems to be… |
Sequence 6be able to operate successfully; these persons in conjunction with each other should form a coherent body of positive growth… |
Sequence 5A Variety of Interesting Readers for Primary and Early Elementary I Can Read Se1'ies: Harper & Row, New York.… |
Sequence 6The Cozy Book. Hoberman, Mary Ann, illustrated by Tony Chen. Viking, New York, 1982. Close Your Eyes. Man:ollo, Jean, pictw·… |
Sequence 7Their own writing will be a reflection of that extensive reading. They write what I call, with apologies to Bach, "… |
Sequence 1TRIBUTE TO LINDA PRESTON By David Kahn In Memory of LINDA SOULE PRESTON April 4, 1938 - March 20, 1988 Memorial Service… |
Sequence 2easy for him to make the bed each morning. A small Pinocchio hat rack held his pajamas and his outdoor coat. A large piece of… |
Sequence 3touching remembrance of a visit to Hiroshima. She spoke of her own dedication to peace and education and managed to dig a hole… |
Sequence 2Dependent variables in the study were the motor skill of eye-hand co-ordination, visual perception skills of figure ground and… |
Sequence 4the button of a food processor to slice vegetables in a noisy flash. The child is interested in the ritual of cutting a carrot… |
Sequence 4His work brings to life the idea of inquiry as dialogue-the shared and cooperative pursuit of truth among people of knowledge… |
Sequence 6students were taught confusions. At times, assignments were framed so that "culture" was a sort of umbrella… |
Sequence 7in the l:,ook changed. How did circumstances lead them to alter their beliefs, attitudes, or behavior? Lee wrote a paper… |
Sequence 5The great works of the human mind in the western intellectual tradi- tion fulfill this requirement in a preeminent way. The… |
Sequence 2learn is not enough; stimulation is not teaching. Since whatever can be learned by instruction must necessarily have been… |
Sequence 6The Greek Educational Analogue We look to the classics at this point, not to suggest that a study of the ancient culture… |
Sequence 12all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened… |
Sequence 11Sawyer so graphically lacked it. Ifwe are attentive to our own experience and that of others, ifwe have the kind of humility… |
Sequence 4personal behavior decisions are social decisions. There is an adult who helps us come to generous understanding, not by… |
Sequence 5function of the child with regard to the formation of the human personal- ity (p. 15). Oui· civilization has not yet devised… |
Sequence 10history as (long after) bipedalism, and probably after tool use and enlargement of the brain, we had many different forms of… |
Sequence 2present, the oriental peoples were tied to the past and it was therefore called "education by recapitulation.&… |
Sequence 3tell the young because anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and… |
Sequence 4Plato's educational proposals also arouse distrust because to preserve the unity of the State, he destroys the family as… |
Sequence 5given to childhood. Quintilian divides the training of an orator into three stages: (a) the early stage of home education up… |
Sequence 6women, though from his saying that both the parents should be cultured we may draw the conclusion that girls also were to be… |
Sequence 7Dewey, John. (1956). The ch:ild and the curriculum: the sclwol and soci.ety. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press. Hunt,… |
Sequence 8I have already said that the evolutionary engine ofnatw-al selection is a terrible one and, until very recently, we were as… |
Sequence 5methods of such ingenuity to their offspring. Thinking began in earnest with the teaching of chinking. As a result, our… |
Sequence 8the strong-willed person fighting his own desires. BU. You're beginning to sound like your old teacher, Plato.24 \\i•… |
Sequence 1116 William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator I.I Oanuary I, 1831), 4. 17 N.E. 11.6, 1106b36. 18 N.E. 11.6, 1107a6; cf. III.4, J l… |
Sequence 26References Goffstein, M.B. (1979). Natural history. New York. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Goffstein, M.B. (I 984). A little… |
Sequence 19Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 48Stodolsky, S.S. & Jensen, Judith. ( I969b). Ancona Montessori research project for c11!111ral/y disadvamaged children… |
Sequence 7Asians, Egyptians, Indians, Europeans, Syrians, Armenians, and Arabs. The students encounter Alexandrian mathematics, physics… |
Sequence 9These metrically arranged units of sound, then, accumulated line by line in the Homeric poems to repeat the heroic story. The… |
Sequence 10poetic culture that preceded them. In particular, they highlight Plato's reasons for wishing to exclude poets from his… |
Sequence 36Goody, J. (1977). The domestica1ion of the savage mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. Goody, J. ( I 987). The… |
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 3RUFFING MONTESSORI SCHOOL PEACE CURRICULUM: AN INFORMAL NARRATIVE by John Long In these excerpts from a talk presented at… |
Sequence 21References Arnold, M. B. 0984). Memory and the Brain. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.… |
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Sequence 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 4of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every… |
Sequence 13analysis of sounds relative to speech is essentially auditory-visual-tactile- kinesthetic exercises connected with the… |
Sequence 9for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 51for teenagers to be rude? Is it normal behavior for teenagers to use tasteless language? Is it normal behavior for teenagers… |
Sequence 1Do NoT BEQUEATH A SHAMBLE THE CHILD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: INNOCENT HOSTAGE TO MINDLESS OPPRESSION OR MESSENGER TO… |
Sequence 2system of education. It is easy to see why verbal/linguistic skills are highly valued by parents and traditional educators.… |
Sequence 3Human beings have two complex apparatus for producing speech and for hearing the spoken word. Paper, pencil, and books are… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 17with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
Sequence 5behave like adults. Somewhere in those four years a mature human being is supposed to emerge out of the cocoon of childhood.… |
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 4tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 13for the poor as well. Pericles reminded the Athenians, "We have no objection against the poor as long as they're… |
Sequence 18know it today will be destroyed or saved because of the West- maybe destroyed in the rain forest and maybe destroyed in… |
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 9that skepticism to everything-like Bill Clinton's talk. Everybody thought it was a wonderful talk, but it was a God-… |
Sequence 3Howard Gardner's work and the present state of his Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which debunks traditional notions of… |
Sequence 4What does the Meno tell us? The Meno tells us about Socrates' visit to his friend Menon. On this visit, he has a… |
Sequence 5Descartes' exclamation •1 think therefore I am• leaves little space in the classroom for the physical world or the… |
Sequence 6the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 7At the beginning we reacted with some fatigue, because it was hard to see that themes that had been studied with great care,… |
Sequence 9love." "With eternal love I love you" say the prophets of Israel (Isaiah 54:8,Jeremiah31:3). &… |
Sequence 6joy of the children at their" awkward efforts" was the impetus for the pair to do something more organized… |
Sequence 9calling them out, the shepherd going ahead of them, the sheep follow- ing. This opens the way for them to work with the… |
Sequence 4an oral language and therefore oral tradition is very important. Their principal arts and crafts are embroidery and working… |
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 21• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 24REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 75REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 78• the nature of the story (Homer, the Bible) • the nature of dialogue (Aristotle and Plato) • the history of religious… |
Sequence 8not be valid) that the universe may not be as old as some of the stars in our galaxy. But on bal- ance the theory of… |
Sequence 9sometimes the universe actually embodies a theorist's dreams. When this happens, it can have the force of a religious… |
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 15John [Wyatt] mentioned that he finds that the best ques- tion for him to ask a new apprentice is how lazy he or she is.… |
Sequence 3We of the past century have been educated in a particular and odd sort of way. We divided the whole of reality and the… |
Sequence 4Naturally, one must ask what originally was the impulse that moved Plato to make such a happy distinction. As a human being… |
Sequence 17REFERENCES The Adolescent Colloquium: Summary of the Proceedings. Cleveland, OH: Montessori Teacher Education Collabo-… |
Sequence 12It is amazing how wise teenagers can be. It came as a revelation to me how sensitive they could be to and how aware they could… |
Sequence 5REFERENCES Suber, Martin. Between Man and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1978. Suber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner… |
Sequence 8They build upon one another. Every ending is a new beginning. They must be understood as a whole-they must be correlated. They… |
Sequence 5Secondary Literature Entries marked with an askerisk (•) are reprinted in this issue of The NAMT A Journal. Bodi, John.&… |
Sequence 7*Kahn, David. "The Kibbutz, Boys' Town, Williamsburg and the Montessori Erdkinder." NAMT A Quarterly 4.… |
Sequence 17exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 6I'm a military historian by training. The battlefield is the ultimate laboratory of an idea. I hate to say that, but it… |
Sequence 11was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 20balance is the profile of the agrarian: The agrarian alone understands that proper balance. We go back to the image of… |
Sequence 24within a citizen is to bring a skepticism. And citizens then bring that skepticism to everything-like Bill Clinton's… |
Sequence 8HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 30In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 1My followers will surely continue without me. I just hope that they do not become victims of Epicureanism. As for the Stoics… |
Sequence 5king, and he needed a queen. He needed a good queen, a queen with experience. Louis and I were separated on the first day of… |
Sequence 4them what elements they suggest for a prepared environment for adolescents. l. The adolescent must adjust to a new physical… |
Sequence 20our approach, though subordinate to the first three objectives, was (4) the presentation of related nomenclature and… |