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Sequence 7"Let us give the child a vi- sion of the whole uni verse. The universe is an imposing real- ity, and an answer to… |
Sequence 25qualitative enhancement? In that case, death would be a personal movement toward deeper participation in God's own… |
Sequence 1t ~ ----------------------- FINDING THE ARTIST WITHIN: A CHALLENGE FOR MONTESSORIANS by David Kahn In March, 1998, NAMTA… |
Sequence 16It is true that when the art- ist is in action, he may function in three ways simultaneously. In teaching, however, we… |
Sequence 3The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 4The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
Sequence 8The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 23with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 3Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 46Creative expression-what's that? I propose this definition: generating a product that is valued in a cultural context (… |
Sequence 76with the students excerpts of Maria Montessori' s To Educate the Human Potential.) This is not to make the Erdkinder… |
Sequence 116The child by nature loves the environment. By helping the child forge an emotional bond with nature, we help guarantee… |
Sequence 138The implications are these: l. respect for the child's capacity and abilities; 2. change in attitude about Practical… |
Sequence 224The newspapers criticized; Dr. Maria Montessori was asked what she meant by her speech, and she writes that she scarcely knew… |
Sequence 10ognize each other as individuals and "have a reciprocal feeling for each other's worth" (Montessori,… |
Sequence 14If the environment is warm and safe, however, and if adults deal "sweetly and kindly" with them (Montessori… |
Sequence 3If the seeds are sown in the elementary years, they take root in the place of the adolescent years. The important… |
Sequence 12Erica: I am so lucky to be living, and living in such a great place. Studying the Hubbell Telescope though has made me think… |
Sequence 23reality directly without assuming that all truth lies with their founders. They need to take responsibility for the… |
Sequence 5record of the life of the child in societies without writing. But we know that some must have grown to maturity; otherwise we… |
Sequence 3Montessori continues in To Educate the Human Potential: The child of six who has been in a Montessori school has the… |
Sequence 4scheduling practice, and assessing levels of achievement, as a teacher usually does, the guide, based on his or her knowledge… |
Sequence 16that-all in one word, which we don't do in English. We tend to depend much more on syntax or word order or stringing… |
Sequence 33have seen it in my own children. My third child is actually probably the slowest with language of any of them, but he's… |
Sequence 6sentence, or a short paragraph that describes, defines, or highlights an experience in the environment.Descriptive labels for… |
Sequence 9something that's a sign that's inevitably linked to a particular occa- sion, like traffic lights at intersections,… |
Sequence 13The trees The ancient guards The silent watchers They follow me with eyes unseen And that silence That terrible silence,… |
Sequence 1PROCESS WRITING: FINDING FLOW IN ADOLESCENT SELF-EXPRESSION by Kim Kinzer-Brackbill Process writing has been a mainstay for… |
Sequence 16THE CULTURE OF CIVILITY: THE COHESION OF THE SOCIAL COMMUNITY by Pat Ludick Comparing the common characteristics between… |
Sequence 8I am reminded of the truth of these comments every year. The fact is that adults, in general, don't like this age. Many… |
Sequence 2And adolescents need to engage in real work that they see as important to others, to their community of peers or to the larger… |
Sequence 1During the ride back from the hunger center, I reflected upon my encounter with poverty. When I arrived home my mother stood… |
Sequence 10Attention Grabber The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss (New York: Random House, 1984), was read to the students. Yes, middle… |
Sequence 13• Values and Attitudes Having worked with all of the above models that explore Place as Pedagogy, it is easy to applaud the… |
Sequence 10I repeat the same thing about money in order that the immorality and error bound up with it may be destroyed, and we must… |
Sequence 1exercise his mental powers. Instruction is considered the on! y goal in secondary school, but what sort of instruction? What… |
Sequence 3WHY NOT CONSIDER ERDKINDER? by Peter Gebhardt-Seele Dr. Peter Gebhardt Seele describes the Erdkinder ideal in relation to… |
Sequence 17exist in other cultures. We're not supposed to speak of Western chauvinism now, but I think that I can prove to you that… |
Sequence 18ence, and material overabundance. The nature of human nature being what it is, we would quickly, as Nietzsche said, sink into… |
Sequence 19critics. I think in this case the Right was right, that eventually our capitalist system would create so many goods and… |
Sequence 20What happened? What made this unique culture? I've argued, and I think I can make the argument very briefly this morning… |
Sequence 1or Los Angeles. But the Greeks who began to live on the farm created a chauvinism about what they did and who they were.… |
Sequence 3In addition, diversified crops don't require the same soil and climatic conditions. With diversification, now farmers… |
Sequence 4started to have threshing floors, presses, small little agricultural production centers right on their farms or shared by a… |
Sequence 7We have that legacy of dynamism in the West, for good or for evil. The danger for a Western army is always another Western… |
Sequence 8In 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 10happen. But the reality is that probably a.ll of the schools in this room, or the majority of them, are in urban environments… |
Sequence 7microcosm. They re- semble a child's aquarium. In his au- tobiography, Loren Eiseley writes that his most important… |
Sequence 8HUMANITIES PROJECTS 2000-2001 Study of the Maya I. Study of Living Things II. Technology and the Building Up of Civilization… |
Sequence 20students be able to choose to study any period, any person, any technological achievement at any time? There are good reasons… |
Sequence 30In some ways, it started with our election study, when two people were invited to each represent the views of Gore and Bush on… |
Sequence 19and basic algebra. Therefore, the next stage of mathematics must use and develop this power of abstraction. The second… |
Sequence 12. Lay down a baseline and measure it as accurately as possible and precisely as necessary. This is the most important stage… |
Sequence 19bottom line pressures? From journalistic sensationalism or the patenting of genetic breakthroughs, some prac- tices that… |
Sequence 6Balancing Creativity and Service Although creativity and social service may seem dichotomous notions, it is the combination… |
Sequence 1brings wholeness rather than fragmentation to one's life and requires the courage to use life-affirming principles to… |
Sequence 2ATTACHMENT PARENTING: A STYLE THAT w ORKS by William Sears It is important to fully explore the questions of attachment and… |
Sequence 10Around five to six months of age, precisely because his motor abilities have improved so much, the child may decide to get out… |
Sequence 1USING THE ASSISTANTS TO INFANCY FOR PRE-ADOLESCENTS: ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY p ARENTHOOD by Judi Orion The life cycle of… |
Sequence 2Goo's CosMic PLAN AND THE WORK OF THE CHILD by Carol Cannon Dittberner Integrating the broad vision of cosmic education… |
Sequence 9EXCELLENCE AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS I would like to say a few words about what happens at the other end, once you are into… |
Sequence 1CIVILITY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE ROOTS OF COMMUNITY CONNECTION by Patricia Ludick This article weaves into the adolescent… |
Sequence 7components describes the real parameters of a philosophy of educa- tion, the important ones in any case. Today l'm going… |
Sequence 15interesting that this is what he drew from that. Six million Jews die, and he's talking about indifference and wonder.… |
Sequence 2history, in the earth's logic, in nature's bounty, in the wonders of the human-built world. We are keepers of human… |
Sequence 7The totality of the cosmos may not be compartmentalized into subjects. Subjects are helpful for the teacher to keep order… |
Sequence 7The first and third planes, ages zero to six and twelve to eighteen, are periods of creation of characteristics that were not… |
Sequence 14closing or revolutionizing the traditional types of employ- ment. ... there is a need for a more dynamic training of… |
Sequence 4extremely valuable and will have these larger social and political effects. With that, let me begin to talk about the topic… |
Sequence 11This shift of focus from objects to relationships is not an easy one because it is something that goes counter to the… |
Sequence 6need to go inside of our being and get in con tact with our "True Self," the divine core where divine Light… |
Sequence 6cient history, astronomy, geology, and chemistry-in other words, a cosmic curriculum. The work of the child at the second… |
Sequence 23memorization of puzzle words, or math facts, our goal should be to hear the child asking questions such as these: "… |
Sequence 5upset if they are given any kind of gift, which is what anthropologists used to do originally when they visited. They left… |
Sequence 6to provide any kind of alternative to these old traditional ways of development. Then there is this fourth category, which is… |
Sequence 14But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 12This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 20The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 6also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 12Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 14We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 26We consider mathematics from three points of view: arith- metic, algebra, geometry. Under the guidance of our experience with… |
Sequence 126Figure 7. World Map Showing the Main Peninsulas of the World. Etymologies The teacher or children can research the stories or… |
Sequence 144also" the mother with six children of different ages is far better off than the mother with one."… |
Sequence 210The "Energies" of Infancy In the lecture that Montessori gave with the help of this second chart (Second… |
Sequence 218This is the time, says Montessori, "when the social man is created but has not yet reached full development"… |
Sequence 234But this cosmic vision belonged not only to Maria Montessori; it belongs to the whole of our Montessori movement. It imparts a… |
Sequence 2inquiry, and sharing ideas help us make predictions about ages and stages. We learn about the multitude of possible roles to… |
Sequence 3really mean? The dictionary says to explore is to search through with a view to making a discovery, to look into all parts of… |
Sequence 5One could see how little children, because of their inno- cence, can feel the need of God's presence in a purer and more… |
Sequence 7The end result of an ill-prepared environment, lacking in compas- sion and understanding, is a deviated human being-a human… |
Sequence 13Obedience is not merely compliance. Forced obedience is not the same as true obedience. If we make the child behave by fear,… |
Sequence 7The educator must not imagine that he can prepare himself for his office merely by study, by becoming a man of culture. He… |
Sequence 7It is not surprising that Ms. Dwyer renamed her reading classic, originally entitled A Reading Scheme for English (assembled… |
Sequence 1To WoRK Is NoBLE, TO BEHOLD Is DIVINE by David Kahn When Montessori schools struggle with finances, admissions, and finding… |
Sequence 8How much independence should an adolescent have? How do we help them "enter into society" while offering the… |
Sequence 31career in psychology?" What is getting an A in an education course on classroom management going to have to do with… |
Sequence 1EIGHT MONTESSORI INSIGHTS by Angeline Stoll Lillard Here follows a small excerpt from Angeline Li/lard's new book… |
Sequence 5with how we know the very best learning takes place. Rather than memorize facts chosen by a faraway state legislative body,… |
Sequence 10ADOLESCENT: SLAVE TO THE PRE-COLLEGIATE OR INDEPENDENT LEARNER LOOKING AT THE WHOLE OF LIFE? But, having studied the… |