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Sequence 5a permissive role while her mother was more demanding. She was an oldest child and could have felt upstaged by an adoption in… |
Sequence 9just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
Sequence 2watching it grow tall and straight and bring forth beautiful leaves. And then, just as it is ready to flower, someone moves it… |
Sequence 8Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I… |
Sequence 9Ms. A: Yes, that's why oratory would fail too. Even a speech in a grand style would fail where experience and feelings… |
Sequence 9cannot produce children because first you have to reach maturity. If you attempt to do something that a mature person does,… |
Sequence 5new insights or beliefs rather than the other way around, although learning styles differ for people. The brute sanity… |
Sequence 2she and her students would look better. This has not achieved a meaningful improvement in instruction or achievement. Those… |
Sequence 5TB. It's an awakening experience that children have when they are very young. When you see animals and young humans, they… |
Sequence 12movements at all times, not just at school. We learned to notice small details, and we learned to give great lessons. We… |
Sequence 5The ways in which conflicts are resolved within a classroom are impor- tant, too; invariably conflicts come up. It's… |
Sequence 17within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 95within the student as we survey the "universe of literature." There it all is, before her, everything that… |
Sequence 7was a cognitive psychologist he was a biologist, so maybe there's something about watching growing things that makes you… |
Sequence 11another person until they got to be seven years old. That's called decentering. You start out egocentric so that you… |
Sequence 4These graces have every opportunity to be exercised and imple- mented because the children are free to act, free to choose,… |
Sequence 12duplicating famous experiments of history and others being the inventions of the students themselves. They seem to be going… |
Sequence 9One other characteristic that's very important is that when people get really involved in something that turns out to be… |
Sequence 11something, you're probably going to slow down compared to the others. If you are climbing a mountain and you start… |
Sequence 23probably do it quite well, from what I can see, and that's not a problem in your type of schooling. The other thing to… |
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 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 37two years old; her lips still move when she reads, but we're OK with that. My two-year-old is doing what two-year-olds do… |
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 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 22For instance, let me just give one little piece of data from this study. One is that we asked these children, whenever the… |
Sequence 29good because they didn't have the interest. So if the parents just provide routine opportunities without knowing what… |
Sequence 3He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
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 16the spectrum. On the small end-20- and 30- and 40-acre farms-we see a person who inherits a farm and finds out that if raisins… |
Sequence 26that's been traditionally called the family farm, because those people will not be living on that land. They won't… |
Sequence 11climber: Mountain climbers don't climb in order to get to the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain is the goal… |
Sequence 22Q: Do you think that a child absorbed in a video game is in Flow? A: Yes, they can be in Flow, and usually they stay in Flow… |
Sequence 12Another way of thinking about this relationship is to consider the individual self as the small self, related to the Earth or… |
Sequence 11There are other reasons as well with preemies-they're sort of being bombarded by stimuli they're not ready for-but… |
Sequence 13carbon monoxide. All of those things actually lead to about a half pound reduction in birth weight. Brain size is proportional… |
Sequence 38classroom too, to try to keep the background noises down. Certainly there's no need for background music, in my opinion,… |
Sequence 39Phonemes are individual speech sounds. There are forty pho- nemes in the English language. I don't know exactly the… |
Sequence 3The difference between humans and other animals is not a quantitative difference- it's not that we are a little bit… |
Sequence 18I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 25He said, "Oh, no." I said, "That's just a law. It's a canon. You can't escape it. It… |
Sequence 3become a mechanic. They become less connected with the land. They use capital from off the farm to subsidize losses on the… |
Sequence 12it's dirty. It is. I think I agree with you absolutely, as long as we don't glorify that savagery. We just recognize… |
Sequence 3This time frame is very short-unless you' re in the middle of it, and then you think it's a lifetime. When you'… |
Sequence 4perspective, every day is a good day. We're the ones that say, "Oh, are you having a bad day today?"… |
Sequence 10Q: When you say that everyone's wearing panties, at what age do you start? You don't wait for the parent to say,… |
Sequence 16a toothpick in it. And of course my adult instinct was to say, "Don't squeeze the water out." But I… |
Sequence 5If the neural pore on the anterior or head end fails to close proper I y, we have a defect known as anencephaly. Literally the… |
Sequence 3twenty-four weeks-because of new medical technology, twenty-four- week fetuses can be viable fetuses. So this timeline is a… |
Sequence 7see that this hormonal swing that they're going to go through in adolescence, and all those kinds of changes, are really… |
Sequence 10And then finally I want to talk about this notion of the pitfall of progressivism because progressivism today is the dominant… |
Sequence 16featured quite prominently in this conference. There's a gentleman whose name is David Sobel who's written a number… |
Sequence 16embarrass anybody. This is a very interesting era in human history because we were born into a time of both magnificent… |
Sequence 11trees grew and they're big, mature trees now and the grass has grown, but around others the trees died and everything was… |
Sequence 1THE Goon WORK by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Researching the working lives of geneticists and journalists, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi… |
Sequence 3about balance, which is another aspect of how we run our business, and how I think businesses and organizations are going to… |
Sequence 11is reminding us that we have to focus on what needs to be done, on what we can do, or want to do, and not be overly… |
Sequence 4Most of the inhabitants of this country live hidden away from sight and so the Great River, which links all of them, has to… |
Sequence 5Do you know where this river that flows in secret can be found? Can you guess where you can find this strange nation? Would… |
Sequence 1MONTESSORI: INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT by David Kahn In the first article of this Journal issue, Robert Sternberg of… |
Sequence 8the things that children need to learn from early on. They need to work and play with other children, to be socialized, and to… |
Sequence 9the way we are, just as we work together in society and in our friendships-we need to work together in that way within… |
Sequence 24So surmounting obstacles is really important because there will be times, if you're trying to be creative in your… |
Sequence 26and that is about the obstacles you face if you're going to be creative. It's not an easy path, but it's a… |
Sequence 18Krumins Grazzini continues to describe the revolutionary nature of integration of the disciplines, which begins in the… |
Sequence 5between manual work and what they called academic work. They said, "We like to have a lesson first thing in the… |
Sequence 3graduation speeches, letters they've written to me, or, in many in- stances, essays they wrote for their applications to… |
Sequence 5Ruffing Montessori, I learned that if a task was not worth giving my best effort to initially, then it was not worth doing at… |
Sequence 7is organized, and really, if you think about it, that has to be so. Firstly, ·because they' re looking for mental… |
Sequence 11greatest whole and we pass from one whole to another; in other words, we find wholes within wholes. This sequencing must not… |
Sequence 3needs, but the children's needs. One last point worth noting, perhaps, is that, if we examine the evolution of Montessori… |
Sequence 12it, then surely we can feel nothing but wonder at how much humanity has achieved in such a short space of time. And when we… |
Sequence 4Given the obvious advance of civilization in urban centers-why the "bosom of nature"? There is, of course,… |
Sequence 14that a book I wrote on this topic more than a dozen years ago called Punished by Rewards is probably the first book in history… |
Sequence 23Also, notice that the students experienced first rather than being given the concept. It was hands-on, and they were scurrying… |
Sequence 27helps 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 29Here's what I think makes sense in a school, and I think many of you wiJI agree with this, and then Twill proceed to some… |
Sequence 48kids-if you were primarily interested in sorting people into winners and losers. If you were interested in the quality of… |
Sequence 20I'll give a little narrative on economics that r give at great length in The Real Wealt/1 of Nations, and I will tell you… |
Sequence 12That taught me quite a bit. The first thing! learned was that we were starting to support students in parallel lives. We have… |
Sequence 5The Montessori perspective is to get students to operationalize the ideas themselves. If we ignore their way of thinking and… |
Sequence 12don't have access to EEG equipment, and I don't know how to read an EEG, anyway. As a neuropsychologist, that'… |
Sequence 41high and there's low. That's just how people are. And how are most people? Think about that bell-shaped curve for a… |
Sequence 48comes back down. It's a biological phenomenon: Adrenaline goes into the blood and it gets metabolized out of the blood,… |
Sequence 56Irlen Lenses Let's talk about one very unusual intervention that many have heard of: It's called Iden lenses. This… |
Sequence 16We also want to consider the social aspect of the adolescent. People often see this as a detriment, so if you go into a more… |
Sequence 38what's immediately available, and then it grows to be maps of the neighborhood, maps of your house, maps of favorite… |
Sequence 41This is an extrapolation from upper elementary and lower ado- lescence: Students who are engaged and participating and become… |
Sequence 6ent strategies. If you think of a traditional math class, the teacher gives the lesson, they do a few sample problems together… |
Sequence 8and there are 192 countries that are members of the United Nations (UN). But that's not the end of the issue. There are… |
Sequence 17them T always ask open-ended questions. What do you know about snakes? What do you notice about that? Their conversations with… |
Sequence 552 Montessori: But, at the time, for instance, if the child wanted to play with something of his father's, the mother… |
Sequence 1A Curriculum For Caring by Urie Bronfenbrenncr Dr. Bronfrenbrenner'.~ unique plea for older child im·oti·eme111 with… |
Sequence 3In this reading, so to speak, by "transmission," the most serious difficulties are encountered. We all know… |
Sequence 1530. My training provided the necessary content and background for the cultural subjects. 31. My training included the… |
Sequence 89a permissive role while her mother was more demanding. She was an oldest child and could have felt upstaged by an adoption in… |
Sequence 13just intellectual ones. For example, the social relations of the school are like little prairie fires flaring up and dying… |
Sequence 107watching it grow tall and straight and bring forth beautiful leaves. And then, just as it is ready to flower, someone moves it… |
Sequence 58Mr. C: Well, I can accept that. But I still don't think that money, power and fame are evils, as Socrates says. Mr. B: I… |