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Sequence 8in the United States. With all educational levels currently operating in America, the year 2000 calls for the first… |
Sequence 11MONTESSORI 2000 MISSION T he United States of America is thirsting for bold, new education designs. The exponential knowledge… |
Sequence 37in America and abroad. It was a favorite early childhood curriculum of the "War on Poverty" of the sixties… |
Sequence 64Middle School Community: Montessori 2000 Expected Outcomes Participation in Montessori education is a character-building… |
Sequence 9educationalese all have a purpose. But in my estimation they represent exercises in minutiae-the kind of minutiae that… |
Sequence 129teachers to work with administrators on a plan for released time distribution and an in-service schedule for the system.… |
Sequence 184children from their earliest entrance into the educational community will be accli- mated to the developmental possibilities… |
Sequence 98of my ·career was washing dishes with Bernard Shaw after a very large social gathering. Bernard Shaw's share of the… |
Sequence 99kitchen. Adding section by section, piece by piece, they discovered the style pattern and saw that the repeats in Malory are… |
Sequence 104English. So, English literature dropped. When you had a German-speaking ruler and a German-speaking court, it affected what… |
Sequence 122Some of the Native American tales preserve the original animal marriage, and some of the Japanese do. There is nothing… |
Sequence 148Schools cannot start too early to encourage the refinement of taste in children, to present for their learning the fine… |
Sequence 150eve'fythlng' turns on the na- ture of the habits, Including ha&its of language, we Jorm by accident and… |
Sequence 166Plln.osoPHY AND PRAcnCE: PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS FOR TIIE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ALL-DAY MONI'ESSORI PROGRAM Mary B.… |
Sequence 8THE AooLESCENT AND THE FUit.JRE by Margaret E. Stephenson Miss Stephenson presents adolescence in a definitive theorectl… |
Sequence 68Early Years of Exploration and Settlement in America I. Ideas to Investigate for Reports a. Europeans who reached North… |
Sequence 1122. To enable the students to trace their own ethnicity and ancestry and to grow in appreciation for the uniqueness and… |
Sequence 49the millennia, centuries, half-centuries, and even decades. We can also see the sequence of these frameworks. Second, there is… |
Sequence 97opment guarantees the unfolding of basic "experience expectant" systems. Refinements of language, such as… |
Sequence 139We must have a conversation that stretches out across this nation and creates an advocacy for children that rejects all nay-… |
Sequence 12of the word, in the sense of Socrates and Plato, the master or majenta who recognizes that in every child and perhaps in every… |
Sequence 161teaching, which are now standard fixtures in the early education scene in America. Dr. Montessori was strongly influenced by… |
Sequence 162the teacher must awaken the spirit of the child. They considered the moral preparation of the teacher to be the key to… |
Sequence 56organization-as well as with managing their behavior. It is more sur- prising to discover, in the writings of Russian… |
Sequence 117children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 180a need for whole men. Every side of the human personality must function. A young person may have special aptitudes in some… |
Sequence 27LINKING THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL: THE IMPORTANCE OF p ARENTAL CHOICE IN ADMISSIONS by Sharon L. Dubble, PhD The Montessori… |
Sequence 135Assessment (1992, p. 7), and the future of testing in America depends on issues of equity and the improvement of opportunities… |
Sequence 11PART I MONTESSORI IN AMERICA SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 August, 1995, marks the 125th anniversary of Maria Montessori' s… |
Sequence 13MARIA MONTESSORI AND THE "GLASS HOUSE" by Alan Bonsteel, MD Dr. Bonstee/' s article not only conveys… |
Sequence 14these "deficient" children, in 1907 she took her new teaching prin- ciples to "normal"… |
Sequence 17and Montessori teaching in the U.S. fell on hard times. Some of the new "Montessori" schools in the U.S.… |
Sequence 21A DAY WITH DR. MARIA MONTESSORI AND HER YouTHFUL CHARGES Is AN EYE-OPENER FOR THE AVERAGE p ARENT by Frederick R. Hinkle… |
Sequence 94The idea Montessori is trying to get across is something so novel, so stupendous, that-as she herself says-she really needs a… |
Sequence 101another of a Euro-American provincialism, as though a majority of the world's population and their historical… |
Sequence 102that we are now faced with a crisis of global proportions. This situation takes the form of a crisis in energy, food, ecology… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 39The first reason has to do with scholarship based on the old model. Consider the recent book The Bell Curve (Herrnstein &… |
Sequence 228century, no scientist or philosopher any longer believed in the idea of linear development during the prenatal period, in the… |
Sequence 239MARIA MONTESSORI ANO PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION During the two decades between the first publication of The Montessori Method 18 (… |
Sequence 94MONTESSORI: A CARING PEDAGOGY by Elizabeth Hall In this Montessori manifesto of caring, Ms. Hall puts forward the impor-… |
Sequence 5EDITORIAL: p ATHWAYS TO MATURITY by David Kahn As the new year is underway and we approach the twenty-first century with… |
Sequence 58"IN Mv SERVICE Is PERFECT FREEDOM!" Some advanced Montessori training courses do not include the sixth… |
Sequence 166To-day, however, I wish to speak of the adult and of man's psychological structure, as the child has revealed it to us.… |
Sequence 220area is ranked among the best places in the nation to live and do business. Durham ("City of Medicine," USA… |
Sequence 26that belief is there, all rewards and punishments could disappear and new ones would pop up like new Kleenexes in the box. I,… |
Sequence 255digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 256to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 258most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 260quite accurate analysis. I think we all have to realize that farms like mine are being destroyed in California. All of my… |
Sequence 278who is still farming, they eventually have to come to you to ship their fruit back east and you can charge them at each stage… |
Sequence 279have to go down to Chile to find that. The answer, then, that I am suggesting is again the material appetite-the reason why… |
Sequence 321The implicit value of farming is self- sufficiency, not "cash cropping: The value of giving soltlething back to the… |
Sequence 340Wolf's survey is a resource which will provide a variety of starters for conversations and classroom techniques about… |
Sequence 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 60Yes, there are innumerable agriculturists, gardeners, sweepers, grave diggers that keep order upon the earth so that nature… |
Sequence 92He has become adapted to his group as it is at the particular time when he is growing up and to his environment and whatever… |
Sequence 149in other words, who had been deeply scarred by the war, injured in both body and soul. 6 Other types of institutions have… |
Sequence 150community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 163What guarantee, after all, can the Erdkinder community offer parents? There are no existing Erdkinder com- munities (in the… |
Sequence 192Probably the most dramatic impact of the participatory ar- ticles of the CRC is the way they are being used in some coun-… |
Sequence 245student's preferred form, such as a scrapbook, a story, an annotated photo album, or a timeline. Since writing these… |
Sequence 52Our mother, 1 five years in America and fresh to the ways of Ameri- can Catholicism, was not daunted by being a woman. A lay… |
Sequence 72At the same time, she identifies herself as a student of philosophy. She even translated an 1866 English edition of a book by… |
Sequence 165use real dishes and cloth towels rather than plastic and Styrofoam; we implement Cosmic Education in the elementary years; we… |
Sequence 43and a master of Zen. It gets awfully crowded in that ever-expanding "within." I was orphaned at the age of… |
Sequence 74Children do not listen in the so-called "grown-up manner," sitting quietly. They like to move with music.… |
Sequence 23The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 24with interest and with skepticism, in many areas of American life. But along with genuine interest and combined with real… |
Sequence 61essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 62cooked supper for all seven of us. The others washed up so the cook could retreat to her album work. By the time we arrived,… |
Sequence 67form their own organization for mutual support, the Montessori Teachers' Association of Pennsylvania, which they did.… |
Sequence 84THE MONTESSORI PRESCHOOL: PREPARATION FOR WRITING AND READING by Sylvia 0. Richardson Dr. Richardson brings together her… |
Sequence 85direct preparation for writing and reading. In an era when education was stereotyped and discipline in the schools was almost… |
Sequence 83This documented history was so absorbing that the chil- dren became entirely possessed by the situations. They started… |
Sequence 114events, and people. The point of origin of the universe is indeed in each of them, in this place and they play it out in a… |
Sequence 115with the gifts of its mission of free- dom, its colorful history of different peoples, its art and literature that tell that… |
Sequence 6MARGARET E. STEPHENSON: FOLLOWING THE CHILD ACROSS THE PLANES OF DEVELOPMENT by David Kahn Margaret E. Stephenson's… |
Sequence 24operation, the exploration by sentiment for the development of the spiritual territory, the exploration by the senses for the… |
Sequence 58COSMIC EDUCATION by Margaret E. Stephenson Cosmic Education is, in a way, what we have been leading up to all these days,… |
Sequence 62chosen by adults are wrong. Moreover, these centers of interest are superfluous, for the child is interested in everything. Do… |
Sequence 116the Scientific Revolution, and England and America during the Indus- trial Revolution. For each academic year, we will select… |
Sequence 2171st to June 15th 2001. Both classes are well-established communities with a full range of Montessori ma- terials appropriate… |
Sequence 194Montessori Teachers "Those who trust us educate us" Palm Harbor Montessori Acad- emy is seeking teachers (… |
Sequence 20If the human being is what we study, then we must create an environment which uniquely addresses the psychologi- cal… |
Sequence 23PaAJ 1: 1/ie, ttf~ e~ AN OVERVIEW OF ADOLESCENCE by Phil Gang Dr. Gang's overview of adolescence provides a backdrop… |
Sequence 24Towards the end of the nineteenth century the status of youth rapidly declined for three reasons: 1. Technical advancements… |
Sequence 153written material, discussion, and a variety of field experi- ences. Each student will: • Read Travels with Charley, by John… |
Sequence 179contemporary civilization. It is surely debilitating to the individual intellect. Mumford's remedy for the narrow, under… |
Sequence 234you are not good at waiting. How can you be? We are, in Europe, suffering from the defects of old age, and that is why we… |
Sequence 313students to apprentice themselves to master craftsmen, usually school employees or experts brought to the school for that… |
Sequence 351In the Hellenistic period we will see farms of 5,000, 10,000, 15,000- the largest I know of was over 70,000 acres in Egypt.… |
Sequence 352you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 355to follow an indigenous Aztec pattern of development. That's a very cruel thing to say, but it's absolutely true.… |
Sequence 356all of you as teachers should remember one thing: Your allegiance is not to make people feel good but it is to the truth.… |
Sequence 375carefully-not only admit that they lose money on the growing; they welcome it. They like that loss, because that means… |
Sequence 376Criticism of democracy has ea used the biggest trouble in my own life-not only in reviews but also after lectures-and some… |
Sequence 388simplification to suggest that today's "growing up" problems could be solved by a return to the rural… |
Sequence 393Routine care of plants and animals develops the habit of being a responsible participant in the community-a form of… |
Sequence 556Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |