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Sequence 150viva] of the fittest demands, safeguarding tradition in order to under- stand how co achieve social and technical skills… |
Sequence 9psychological understanding. The Hershey School's contribution is its whole perception of the outdoors in connection with… |
Sequence 7EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 21achievements. Educated Victorians were more familiar with long-ago battles on the windy plains of Troy, the wooden horse, and… |
Sequence 64could serve an apologetic function, if needed. Descartes' physics depended on God's action at every turn. Boyle and… |
Sequence 165awful. I hated it," I answered firmly. I had a feeling that she would not appreciate that response. It turns out I… |
Sequence 174it a little, thus relieving them of responsibility for engaging in such a childish activity. Besides, they still enjoy being… |
Sequence 209WYOMING MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CASPER. Wyo- ming, now accepting applications for AMI El- ementary Guide for new class… |
Sequence 96There are dozens of words that you can pick out to give to children. Bankrupt means someone whose bench has been broken (rupto… |
Sequence 113the only one of the whole group that I ever use. Personally, I never tell any Bluebeard story in which the girl dies. On… |
Sequence 118have been traced, and seventeen Robin Hoods. This snowballing happens because there are so few names. Even in England-… |
Sequence 120the twenty key dates of history-1097-and you'd better put it down now and remember it if you can. 1097 is the year in… |
Sequence 166For Sale EVOLUTION MATERIALS EVOLUTION TIMELINE with 130 illus- trations. 14' X 90"$8.95 18' X 115&… |
Sequence 78The capacity to heighten significance and enlarge meaning by thinking about events "romantically" can be… |
Sequence 52in order to study medicine. At that time, a woman who went among men, and especially among naked bodies which she cut to… |
Sequence 99and meaning in the universe is one of the ways we provide a secure environment. But we also create a context in which there is… |
Sequence 117children will want to send their work out for publication. In our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, a segment of… |
Sequence 16lecture extensively to wider audiences, including a combined session of the 53rd annual convention of the National Education… |
Sequence 107the abilities of children throughout the world. As early as 1910, she resigned her lectureship at the University of Rome,… |
Sequence 1Vol. 21, No. 3 Summer 1996 Rediscovering the All-Day Montessori Community AD-Day Montes..orl: Notes on the HJstory of the… |
Sequence 5La Maison des Enfants, Sevres, France, 1930s. |
Sequence 48THE CASA OF SEVRES, FRANCE by Margot Waltuch Margot Waltuch's pictorial documentation and personal description of her… |
Sequence 97Once, long ago, more than 3,000 years before our time, on the island of Ithaca off the west coast of Greece, lived a king… |
Sequence 78excavating ruins and describing how to build. The techniques, the skills, the information about building and sculpting were… |
Sequence 243tion of agrarianism, I will try to suggest to you, is tied to Western culture. In other words, Western culture would not have… |
Sequence 244culture, not because it failed, but because it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, using the old Platonic… |
Sequence 246What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 247corporate agriculture-farm owners don't want to live where they farm because it's boring, it's dirty; they… |
Sequence 249want to use that word superiority, but Greek military prowess surely is a sign of cultural dynamism. In addition, diversified… |
Sequence 250them first to get the tangent taste out, and then you press them into olive oil. As for barley or wheat, you have to cut it… |
Sequence 253wore-that they would be absolutely formidable and terrifying against foreigners. Herodotus says that when the Persians met… |
Sequence 255digms of exclusion-not unlike modern America. The Hellenistic period is a wide-open period similar to our own, where money… |
Sequence 285related but are slightly different, which we might term survival or entrepre- neurial. A: Absolutely. As I said I've… |
Sequence 351organization of story, logic, and truth, which comes to the inevitable realization that to serve is to balance one's… |
Sequence 374Become a Montessori Teacher • preschool level (ages 3-6) • bachelor's degree required • master's program available… |
Sequence 7"Respect This House" is Mario's anecdote about the early days of the Spanish Civil War, and it is… |
Sequence 51Froebel, it was in the concept of "play" that he recognized human activity which brought the outer world in… |
Sequence 56THE MONTESSORI FAMILY AND ME by Margot W altuch This beautiful vignette of Margot Waltuch' s connection to the… |
Sequence 150community, since the former and the latter are quite distinct in terms of the community members, the aims, and therefore the… |
Sequence 231We fire the imagination with stories, carefully chosen, intriguingly told. As our syllabus is the Universe, we can go… |
Sequence 232String is so important and so powerful thatit may have been the unseen tool that allowed the human race to make leaps of… |
Sequence 233follow the interests of the children and our own interests, too. We must be readers, scholars, "storytellers of the… |
Sequence 235the wife of two kings and later was to become the mother of two kings. For some years, Eleanor and Henry were content. They… |
Sequence 285teacher to start a new class. In ad- dition, we are looking for an AMI certified primary and/ or elemen- tary teacher and a… |
Sequence 210VILLE-MARIE MONTESSORI SCHOOL in Montreal, Canada is seeking creative and dedicated AMI primary and elementary teachers for… |
Sequence 166dergone extensive renovations and expansion. Our staff is solidly entrenched in the school. Most of them have been at… |
Sequence 61essence of Montessori, who in a variety of ways contributed to make Montessori a dynamic force in education here and around… |
Sequence 123La Maison des Enfants, Sevres, France, 1930s 118 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 25, No. 1 • Winter 2000 |
Sequence 250READERS RESPOND TO THE WHOLE-SCHOOL MONTESSORI HANDBOOK; INSPIRES ADMINISTRATOR-TEACHER RETREAT The scope, organization… |
Sequence 84We must present the human story, and this goal is the central and overarching history theme of any Montessori adolescent… |
Sequence 85In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 13record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 25But as well as this material territory to be exposed to the child, with the ways in which man has come into contact with other… |
Sequence 92then be false to any man." Shakespeare, that great player with words- and what a testimony that is to the spirit and… |
Sequence 110During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 119Attention Grabber The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss (New York: Random House, 1984), was read to the students. Yes, middle… |
Sequence 206I repeat the same thing about money in order that the immorality and error bound up with it may be destroyed, and we must… |
Sequence 247Joosten: You say that the first-year children may not be able to manage more than four and a half days. You also are a mother… |
Sequence 278The education of young people in a commu- nity that is not isolated but only separated from the larger society entails… |
Sequence 308and Holland, where the interest was greatest, Montessori told her followers that she wasn't yet ready to discuss this… |
Sequence 310all contributed to a spirit of reevalua tion and reform in education that began in the last decades of the nineteenth century… |
Sequence 318techniques of gardening. These courses eventually developed into multi-week excursions to the country, where fire-building,… |
Sequence 340exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 341ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
Sequence 342critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 343What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 344The Greeks found out that this new diversi- tied scheme gave each farm family au- tonomy that could not be undermined by… |
Sequence 346In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 347started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 350We have that legacy of dynamism in the West, for good or for evil. The danger for a Western army is always another Western… |
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 381happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments… |
Sequence 408HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 436students be able to choose to study any period, any person, any technological achievement at any time? There are good reasons… |
Sequence 446In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 451lives. This Duke was good at what he did. Very good. He was also my father. He had everything, except a wife. She died when I… |
Sequence 453king, 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 556Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 40Montessori said in The Absorbent Mind: The child's adaptation to the world is thus favoured on natural lines, because… |
Sequence 168it to the fetus, it's another ten percent chance that the fetus will be permanently harmed as a result. So it's not… |
Sequence 38Goo WHo HAs No HANDS by Mario M. Montessori Sometimes referred to as the "Story of the Universe," "… |
Sequence 143trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
Sequence 98teenagers-wake up, and they help out, and then the husband goes fishing or hunting for mushrooms, and then he comes back and… |
Sequence 113Baiba Krumins and Camillo Grazzini, 2002, Paris, France l06 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 29, No. 1 • Winter 2004 |
Sequence 191sense of personal responsibility." The very first experiment of this kind, however, was the Junior Republic, founded… |
Sequence 192Landerziehungsheime or "education homes in the country." For ex- ample, the one for youths from twelve to… |
Sequence 250STUDY-CONFERENCE IN STRASBOURG, AUGUST, 1962 by Vera Gander and Camillo Grazzini This year it has been the turn of eastern… |
Sequence 29depressed, and one may feel the need of that solace for strength when depressed. But the wine itself does not feel the need… |
Sequence 45distinction, they feel the need of learning. Then you can teach them the Commandments, religion, and things like that. And… |
Sequence 206a couple stores in that area, and we publicized the need to remove the dam, and we gathered money to try to get it taken down… |
Sequence 70In Montessori's original Children's House, there were no toys for pretend play. Instead of dressing and undressing… |
Sequence 79well together. Teachers and staff must refrain from being judgmental of parents who work long hours. The assistants must… |
Sequence 441THE THIRD ADOLESCENT COLLOQUIUM: p ARTICIPANTS Kathleen Allen, United States Deborah Bricker, United States Dexter Camejo,… |
Sequence 87pages. Uniquely, the main character describes the world completely through his olfactory experiences. Suskind is so skilled… |
Sequence 33--- ------------------------------ seeming independence from nature and our bodily existence. The first Semitic aleph-beth… |
Sequence 116extent and use it in our dealings with children. For the children are the inheritors and passers-on of culture. They are… |
Sequence 159If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of… |
Sequence 243Brain Gym, developed in the 1970s by Paul E. Dennison, PhD, an education specialist, is a series of twenty-six exercises using… |
Sequence 63i ~ "' 1 t:: f. i @ Antique Wooden Stamp Game This early stamp game box was manufaaured in The Hague by… |
Sequence 86A History of War and Peace "Enchance. Mademoiselle." An exercise in grace and courtesy, Paris, 1918… |