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Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

La Dottoressa Montessori at Durham

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COSMIC EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND THE ROLE OF THE MATERIALS by Camillo Grazzini The first section of Mr. Grazzini…
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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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istry or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…
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is, or can be, referred to the whole; where the whole is a set of ordered parts; and, finally, where specialization of…
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11 IN MY SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth great story…

NAMTA Journal 12/1 06 Transition: Urban Montessori Secondary to Erdkinder

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TRANSITION: URBAN MONTESSORI SECONDARY TO ERDKINDER by David Kahn A survey of the current Montessori urban secondary…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 01 Montessori, Poverty and the Special Child

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condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty…

NAMTA Journal 12/2 14 Feature: One World, One Drum

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ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 06 Nature, Mother and Teacher: Her Norms

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in things, and impose different relationships upon them, even those which do violence to nature, by contradicting the ends and…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 11 The Nature and Theory of Silence Activities in the Children's House

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Montessori did, however, write extensively on the will and the development of will in young children. Later interpreters of…
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requires participation. And finally, but importantly, silence should only be initiated at normal times when the room and those…

NAMTA Journal 13/1 14 AMI Montessori: Back to the Future

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of beliefs, its ability to ignite the enthusiasm and commitment of teach- ers, stems from a spiritual and undiluted energy…
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tofight mediocrity, and renew our own fires by returning to the first flames, the sources of Montessori. These sources are,…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 01 The Botanical Cards

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THE BOTANICAL CARDS by Mario M. Montessori This insightful article illustrates the underlying developmental principles which…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 03 Interview: The Kodaikanal Experience (Kahn-Montessori Interview)

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THE KODAIKANAL EXPERIENCE Kahn-Montessori Interveiw From late 1942 to March, 1944, Maria Montessori was interned against her…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 07 Cosmic Education and the Physical Sciences

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This idea of presenting the whole universe to the child is explained by Maria Montessori's grandson, Mario M. Montessori…
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Doesn't it sound like falling back into the ways of earlier educators, defining goals for education in looking at the…

NAMTA Journal 13/2 08 Cosmic Education: Sowing Life, Not Theories

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stresses the same idea in her writing: "the child must learn by his own individual activity, being given a mental…

NAMTA Journal 13/3 03 Longitudinal Studies

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Montessori classroom had one teacher and an aid for 25 children of lower and middle class socioeconomic status. Stodolsky…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 05 The Elementary Curriculum Dialectic: Essentialist vs. Structuralist

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The Essentialists' Viewpoint Essentialism is not a Montessori phenomenon; it is a nationwide trend. What is really…
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Footnotes l Sofia Cavalletti, "The Spiritual Development of the Child," Montessori Thlks to Par- ents,…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 06 The Montessori Middle School: A Personal Witness

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helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal…

NAMTA Journal 14/1 09 The Acquisition of Spoken Language, The Nebula Hypothesis

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New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 02 The Art of Inquiry

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Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 05 Montessori: The Humanities Connection—Mythos, Logos, and the Generalist Ideal

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Montessori's insight suggests that for the child's full development a general history of human development is…
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all ... (ln relation to the Greeks, she writes in To Educate the Human Potential:) So a critical faculty of mind was awakened…

NAMTA Journal 14/2 10 Evolution and Creation: Do We Have to Choose?

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this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 02 Generous Understanding: Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

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each of us might have something to learn. Often, those who proclaim themselves fit to make ethical pronouncements for the…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 06 Class Discussion: A Scenario for The Trivium

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Passive listening to an external authority is replaced by an active search for the best means of expression and communication…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 08 Oft-Told Tales

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my students how they found a practice audience: *"My little brother and sister." *"My morn when…

NAMTA Journal 15/1 09 The Evolution of a Child-Centered Curriculum

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abilities, that were entirely absent from the schoolroom in the previous ages. Consequently, attention of educationists was…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 02 Normalization

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newspapers, and magazines. People began to speak of the "Discovery of the Child," and the discovery of the…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 07 Montessori and Suzuki

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builds from the concrete to the abstract. Suzuki method teachers paral- lel this approach in their ordering of the pieces…

NAMTA Journal 15/2 08 Multicultural Dimensions of Montessori: Philosophy and Method

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"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,…

NAMTA Journal 15/3 10 Becoming Attached

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satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 02 Albert M. Joosten—A Biography

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ALBER!' M. JOOSTEN - A BIOGRAPHY Albert M. Joosten was born in the Nether lands on November 21, 1914. His formal…

NAMTA Journal 16/1 11 Interview: Keeping in Touch with Montessori Roots (An Interview with Mildred Gunawardena)

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Kahn: When you took the course in England, with Mario Montessori, how did cosmic education become evident to you? Gunawardena…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 04 The Objectives of the Paideia Proposal

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THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if…

NAMTA Journal 16/2 16 Systemic Change and Educational Reform

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be based on what was known about curriculum, teaching, learning, and the conditions that would produce improved learner…
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Grumet, M.R (1989). "Dinner at Abigail's: Nurturing collaboration." NEA Today, 7(6), 20-25. Livingston…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 05 Montessori and the Bahá'í Faith

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And to the European Congress of Peace in Brussels she said: Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing peace…

NAMTA Journal 16/3 06 Order in Consciousness

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ORDER IN CoNSCIOUSNFs.5 by Jim Roberts As a Montessori primary teacher, Jim Roberts had often observed deep joy in his…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 03 Language Unfolding In the Child

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Reading Analysis The child is shown how words have a particular place in a senrence: subjecr-predicare-objecr-clauses. She…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 04 The Child and the World of Nature

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In a 1.946 lecture in London Montessori said, "Education today needs one reform. If it is to prepare man for the…
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names of fruits and vegetables he sees as he is being pushed along the aisle of the grocery store, or kinds of cars, or colors…
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books are not enough. Mario Montessori Sr. reminded us of this when he noted how difficult it is to help children understand…
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names of different animals and plants-wonderful words like "red- winged blackbird" and "white-…
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the sun awakes them in the morning .... But instead of this, we anxiously ask ourselves how we can make a child sleep after…

NAMTA Journal 17/1 06 Developing The Mathematical Mind

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There is an interesting complement to these studies that Mario Montessori (1948) describes: The child absorbs a language…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 07 Production and Management

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Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,…

NAMTA Journal 17/2 08 Selected Appendices (introduction)

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Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,…

NAMTA Journal 17/3 17 Plant Sale (Upper Elementary)

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Plant Sale (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A venture into the business of growing and selling annuals and veg•…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 03 Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education

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would wish to replicate all aspects of this phenomenon in our schools, it seems important to understand the nature of their…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 05 The Development of Autonomy in Children: An Examination of the Montessori Educational Model

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN CHILDREN: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL MODEL by Sharon Dubble Kendall, Ph.D…

NAMTA Journal 18/1 13 The Montessori Erdkinder: Three Abstracts

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Communities: plant, animal, human Diversity and Stability: preservation, agriculture, forest and wildlife manage- ment, soil…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 02 The Fertile Field of Imagination

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favorite books or plays. An imagination makes it easier for me to see the ideas behind a story or a character. Most…

NAMTA Journal 18/2 06 Literature and Grammar

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There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto…
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coming in on the noun which gives the stress and keeps the rhythm right. Each child speaks the noun when he comes in;…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 01 The Adolescent and the Future

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THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl…

NAMTA Journal 18/3 03 Montessori Adolescent Education: Toward an Emerging Framework

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Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected…
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Proposed Schools Cincinnati Denver Prince George's St. Paul County, MO Years In Operation or Projected Fall, 1994…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 07 Characteristics of Students' Imaginative Lives, Ages Eight to Fifteen

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somehow transcends them. Many of the "teen-exploitation" movies, such as Ferris Beu bier's Day Off, or…

NAMTA Journal 19/1 12 Breakthrough in Evolution: Toward a Partnership Future

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which it is based. We have also seen that a gylanic 2 or partnership society, symbolized by life-sustaining and enhancing…
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as "an impediment" or "a danger" (p. 87). Thus, they can perceive service to others not as…

NAMTA Journal 19/2 05 Dr. Maria Montessori and the Child

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DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.…
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to wh:11 was happening in ordinary life: There the children were disorderly, always leaving Lhings lying around, and the…

NAMTA Journal 19/3 01 Survey of Montessori Adolescent Programs: Interpretive Commentary

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art ................... . music ............... . reading ........... . French ............... . Spanish ............. .…
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This is the picture that emerges from the survey data of Median Montessori Middle School. That Median is in only its sixth…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 04 Montessori as an Aid to Life

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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 07 Cosmic Education and Literature-Based Teaching

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chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 13 The Montessori Approach to Music

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THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am…

NAMTA Journal 20/1 14 In Memoriam: Nancy McCormick Rambusch 1927-1994

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THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am…
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chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a…
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This Is a wonderful profession, but It Is not easy. We must pro- vide the structure for the soclal group and have clear…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 09 Claude Claremont's Contribution to the History of Science and Engineering

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the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of…

NAMTA Journal 20/2 16 A Literacy Worth Having

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using knowledge-in ways and con- texts that build and strengthen them and the community. The best way to learn and practice…

NAMTA Journal 20/3 02 Maria Montessori and the "Glass House"

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these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"…
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In addition to help from her longtime assistants, Helen Parkhurst and Adelia Pyle, Montessori was accompanied by her son,…
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and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.…

NAMTA Journal 21/1 01 Three Slide Shows for Parents

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unconscious, brings the reader to a full understanding of the power of the unconscious in learning, and of how emotional…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 10 Why Not Consider Erdkinder?

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WHY NoT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Answering possible objections and citing his own personal experiences,…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 11 The Elements of Social Life and the Montessori Adolescent

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gether. If they could function so beautifully in an environment de- signed for their psychological characteristics, could the…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 15 Response to "Parenting for Independence"

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RESPONSE TO .11p ARENTING FOR INDEPENDENCE" by Anne McNamara Anne McNamara, who submitted the original William…

NAMTA Journal 21/2 17 The Four Planes of Development

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adult who can work for the good of humanity and can participate in humanity's (cosmic) mission on this Earth. This is…
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MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (…

NAMTA Journal 21/3 08 Montessori: A Caring Pedagogy

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At the Primary level, the activities of practical life, with artistic use of "points of interest," provide…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 03 Evaluating Experiences in Adolescent Programs

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Development" 1 and more detail in From Childhood to Adolescence (French first edition 1948). What were the…

NAMTA Journal 22/1 05 Cosmic Education at the Elementary Level and the Role of the Materials

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COSMIC EDUCATION IN THE FORM OF A CONCRETE IMAGE I think that everyone, during the course of their lives, has experienced at…
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materials and equipment which are, or ought to be, found in any Montessori elementary environment. Each group representative…
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is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you…
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With the addition of Dr. Montessori's words, the room was complete-transformed into a model of an all-embracing environ…

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