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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 9condescend, we mutter hurried excuses and flee because we do not understand. There are millions of people who have difficulty… |
Sequence 5matter at that, whatever direction our imagination may take, it shall discover no empty place ... our imagination seems to be… |
Sequence 1ONE WORLD, ONE DRUM by Tom Sipes My first teaching assignment was in a Catholic seminary in East Africa, in the town of… |
Sequence 20in things, and impose different relationships upon them, even those which do violence to nature, by contradicting the ends and… |
Sequence 7Their own writing will be a reflection of that extensive reading. They write what I call, with apologies to Bach, "… |
Sequence 33Montessori classroom had one teacher and an aid for 25 children of lower and middle class socioeconomic status. Stodolsky… |
Sequence 5helping students to be total human beings is a more important aim of education. Too many specialists can have only minimal… |
Sequence 1New Montessori Scholarship__; THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE THE NEBULA HYPOTHESIS by Annette Haines ThefoUowi:ng two… |
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 10Eugene "Bull" O'Connor, a notoriously brutish man and a segregation- ist to the core. When efforts to… |
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 2this sense to accomplish his ends in a natural way, instead of having to keep intervening to add new things. In the 17th… |
Sequence 6each of us might have something to learn. Often, those who proclaim themselves fit to make ethical pronouncements for the… |
Sequence 12Passive listening to an external authority is replaced by an active search for the best means of expression and communication… |
Sequence 5my students how they found a practice audience: *"My little brother and sister." *"My morn when… |
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 11abilities, that were entirely absent from the schoolroom in the previous ages. Consequently, attention of educationists was… |
Sequence 2newspapers, and magazines. People began to speak of the "Discovery of the Child," and the discovery of the… |
Sequence 4builds from the concrete to the abstract. Suzuki method teachers paral- lel this approach in their ordering of the pieces… |
Sequence 2"soup" to a "salad bowl" concept in which each ingredient maintains its separate flavor,… |
Sequence 7satisfying relationships and of passing on that ability to their children. But in unstable homes, where parents, often single… |
Sequence 1THE OB)ECl1VFS OF THE PAIDEIA PROPOSAL* by Mortimer J. Adler "Piecemeal refonn measures beget piecemeal results, if… |
Sequence 5methods of such ingenuity to their offspring. Thinking began in earnest with the teaching of chinking. As a result, our… |
Sequence 9be based on what was known about curriculum, teaching, learning, and the conditions that would produce improved learner… |
Sequence 11Grumet, M.R (1989). "Dinner at Abigail's: Nurturing collaboration." NEA Today, 7(6), 20-25. Livingston… |
Sequence 15And to the European Congress of Peace in Brussels she said: Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing peace… |
Sequence 1ORDER IN CoNSCIOUSNFs.5 by Jim Roberts As a Montessori primary teacher, Jim Roberts had often observed deep joy in his… |
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 9Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,… |
Sequence 9Hildegard Solzbacher, Preschool Teacher Trainer, Montessori Teacher Education Collaborative 2l01 W. Good Hope Rd., Glendale,… |
Sequence 7Asians, Egyptians, Indians, Europeans, Syrians, Armenians, and Arabs. The students encounter Alexandrian mathematics, physics… |
Sequence 1Plant Sale (Upper Elementary) by Laurie Ewert-Kroeker A venture into the business of growing and selling annuals and veg•… |
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 12would wish to replicate all aspects of this phenomenon in our schools, it seems important to understand the nature of their… |
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 1THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMY IN CHILDREN: AN EXAMINATION OF THE MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL MODEL by Sharon Dubble Kendall, Ph.D… |
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 10Communities: plant, animal, human Diversity and Stability: preservation, agriculture, forest and wildlife manage- ment, soil… |
Sequence 5There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto… |
Sequence 10coming in on the noun which gives the stress and keeps the rhythm right. Each child speaks the noun when he comes in;… |
Sequence 2Existing Schools BuffaJo Dallas-Ft. Worth Minneapolis (Bennett Parkj /Daggettj !Sewardf Years In Operation or Projected… |
Sequence 3Proposed Schools Cincinnati Denver Prince George's St. Paul County, MO Years In Operation or Projected Fall, 1994… |
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Sequence 5together any civilization and compare their findings with modem times. For starters, the Montessori elementaty curriculum also… |
Sequence 13somehow transcends them. Many of the "teen-exploitation" movies, such as Ferris Beu bier's Day Off, or… |
Sequence 2which it is based. We have also seen that a gylanic 2 or partnership society, symbolized by life-sustaining and enhancing… |
Sequence 5as "an impediment" or "a danger" (p. 87). Thus, they can perceive service to others not as… |
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 5to wh:11 was happening in ordinary life: There the children were disorderly, always leaving Lhings lying around, and the… |
Sequence 13analysis of sounds relative to speech is essentially auditory-visual-tactile- kinesthetic exercises connected with the… |
Sequence 18chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a… |
Sequence 3THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am… |
Sequence 14THE MONTESSORI APPROACH To Music by Elise Braun Barnett Returning recently from a meeting of the College Music Society, I am… |
Sequence 94chapter is called "Discipline and the Teacher," and in it, Montessori is sympathetic to the struggle of a… |
Sequence 2the Montessori educational community, yet he made most of his discov- eries in his own classroom working with a group of… |
Sequence 5using knowledge-in ways and con- texts that build and strengthen them and the community. The best way to learn and practice… |
Sequence 2these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 5and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 1RESPONSE TO .11p ARENTING FOR INDEPENDENCE" by Anne McNamara Anne McNamara, who submitted the original William… |
Sequence 13adult who can work for the good of humanity and can participate in humanity's (cosmic) mission on this Earth. This is… |
Sequence 26MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 4At the Primary level, the activities of practical life, with artistic use of "points of interest," provide… |
Sequence 9students the opportunity to apply ideas to their per- sonal lives first. Thus, a Socratic Practice group may be studying… |
Sequence 31the theatrics of Laurence Davies and Bill Cook, Molly brings an old piece of cloth to her telling and she dashes back and… |
Sequence 33But why push children to tell stories? Why is it important to take that additional step? As we have seen, preparing a story… |
Sequence 18In any case, when the conditions of flow are present, people tend to report an optimal state of inner harmony that they desire… |
Sequence 17with friends, social situations, or reading for pleasure. Worry and anxiety happen a lot in school; they happen a lot on the… |
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 2presently dealing with. The notion expressed in this statement seems to me to be of the greatest importance since the adult in… |
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 320 years, have lacked any governing standard, any consensus of design, and any documentation. To help build the needed… |
Sequence 9during the year. At the North Country School, there occurs a Harvest Day during the fall, in which the entire school… |
Sequence 7discoveries of Maria Montessori, which are set forth in this book, special assistants were trained to guide the mothers in the… |
Sequence 9Montessori. As a first step, every document kept at the AMI has been photocopied. This task has now been completed and the… |
Sequence 18Pearce,Joseph Chilton. Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,… |
Sequence 15With that vision, however, Maria Montessori joins the ranks of the great educational philosophers of all time and gains the… |
Sequence 24Hart, R., & L. Chawla. The Development of Children's Concern for the Environment. Zeitschrift fur Umelweltpolitik… |
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 4She characterizes the "old- fashioned type of professor" as having a "high desk upon a plat- form… |
Sequence 4center of our efforts to insure, in Gianna Gobbi's words, "healthy psychic life and [to pave] the way for human… |