| "Faith in the Human Organism means hope for the future." Ron Miller, 1981
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| Montessori in the Humanist Tradition
By Ron Miller
Mr. Miller integrates contemporary humanistic thinking with classical… |
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child's education is to "socialize" each new generation into the ways (and errors) of the
old. The… |
| those energies and grind them into the dust."9 Carl Rogers, speaking in the nuclear age,
warns us of the probable… |
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1ntellectua/ growth does not flow smoothly, but rather in
spurts of growth followed by consolidation. The spurts in
growth… |
| The Perfectibility of Intellect
By Jerome S. Bruner
Jerome Bruner's complex view of mental life is derived from a… |
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he encounters and in what context, but also ones that permit him to go beyond them.
He learns the world in a way that… |
| gist's nonsense syllables, for example), but for the most part organization is a far more
active process of imposing… |
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minimal. I have recently observed a film shot in a natural park in East Africa in which
a chimpanzee is using a straw,… |
| ment of a stronger pelvic girdle to withstand the impacting strain of upright walking.
The increased strength of the pelvic… |
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The change in the instruction of children in more complex societies is twofold. First
of all, there is knowledge and skill… |
| ress, though the details and the terminology differ as one travels west from Moscow to
Geneva to Paris to Cambridge to Boulder… |
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lently. At first this process was not much noticed or at least was felt to be a process
curbed within narrow bounds, not… |
| In speaking of the nature of intellectual functioning, its evolution, its growth, and its
codified products, I have placed… |
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A more difficult task is to instill early in the learner what in effect is a balance
between impatience with the trivial… |
| "Surely no culture will reach its full potential unless it invents
ever better means for doing so. "
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| Man The Unknown: A Need of a Better Knowledge of Man
By Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel's book published in 1935 had a… |
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fore, our idea of man varies according to our feelings and our beliefs. A materialist and
a spiritualist accept the same… |
| ences that are called anatomy, biological chemistry, physiology, and pathology. How-
ever, the mystery of our existence, the… |
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It is evident that men have joyfully welcomed modern civilization. They have aban-
doned the countryside and flocked to… |
| sequences. These consequences, however, have revolutionized the world and made our
civilization what it is.
From the wealth… |
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which industrial civilization has attained its highest development are precisely those
which are becoming weaker. And… |
| Language, the Basis of Humanism
by J.H. Pestalozzi
Pestalozzi is mentioned in Montessori's early works as a principal… |
| Pestalozzi Monument at Yuerdon
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| 5. Steps to learn and to name the qualities of objects divide themselves into-
a. Teaching the child to express himself… |
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Field.
sandy, loamy, manured, fertile, profitable, un-
profitable.
Then I invert the process, and find adjectives that… |
| What does it say of him as struggling upwards, through the forces of his heart, mind,
and skill, to a view of himself and his… |
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And then she goes on:-
Beasts of prey are flesh-eating.
Stags are light of foot.
The roots are wide-spreading.
Who or… |
| Who or what must do? What must they do?
Raindrops must fall.
Fettered men must go together.
The vanquished must submit.… |
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With these sentences, thus deeply impressed upon the children, we take care to
choose those that are particularly… |
| I have dwelt long upon language as a means of gradually making our ideas clear. It is
indeed the first means. My method of… |
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Some Higher Education Guidelines for
the Prospective Montessori Teacher
By David J. Kahn
Ckcasions arise when high… |
| Jean Henri Fabre
The Life of Insects
Charles Darwin
Origin of the Species. Autobiography
Henri Bergson
£Ian Vitale
Lyell… |
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Language may be studied from the humanistic point of view that it is an adaptive
medium whereby the human relates to his… |
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On the Child's
Nature
We have only wanted to indicate the parabolic character of
the child as an invitation to… |
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The Child's Nature:
The Child's Need to Anticipate
By Lili E. Peller
•Planning a child's day in such a… |
| to a distant place but he will not immobilize the child's legs during the rest of the day.
Though his legs are too weak… |
| anticipate what comes next and thus to go actively with us. It is well known that time
as such is meaningless to the child.… |
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The Need to Repeat and to Warn
Closely related to the child's need to anticipate a thing before it happens is his… |
| Even interruptions preceded by a fair warning should be kept at a minimum in
nursery school. They are a necessary evil in the… |
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Love of familiar patterns is not restricted to children. When we listen to a well-
known piece of music we would be very… |
| The Child As Parable
(from Euntes Docctc XXV /Po111ijicol Unil'ersit_,. Urbo11io110. /971/ pp. 509-5/4/
By Sofia… |
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| In Mark's Gospel, the disciples do not dare to reply to Jesus when he questioned
them as to what they had been speaking… |
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found way and comes to formulate in an essential manner a theme, which constitutes a
foundational motif, and perhaps the… |
| way the paradox of the coexistence of littleness/greatness, powerlessness/power - that
paradox which Christ will live to its… |
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I am trying to link up what
you say about education
with what I think is
important - freeing a child
from guilt.
A.S.… |
| The Child's Nature:
Mario Montessori and A.S. Neill
Discuss their famous schools and their radical approaches to child… |
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Neill: What?
Montessori: New to the world. And one of his unconscious tasks is to classify his
environment, to be able to… |
| Montessori: How do you feel that children can be saved from this kind of thing?
Neill: Well, the first thing is to be loved. l… |
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Montessori: But, at the time, for instance, if the child wanted to play with something
of his father's, the mother… |
| Neill: Not so much lacking-fear of "You musn't do that." I believe it begins in the
cradle, myself,… |
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tried to destroy his religious beliefs; and I think it would be criminal. Of course it
would. And the same with a child.… |
| evidently there is tremendous attraction felt by the child for the spoken word, for the
way people talk. One will even acquire… |
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Montessori: He couldn't read or write at the age of seventeen?
Neill: No, he couldn't. He learned because he… |
| Neill: l had the wrong experience-
Montessori: But if you want to know what I'm doing in my old age, I'm trying to… |
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| NAMTA & AMI-USA Present
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National Montessori Summer Institute
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| A PARENT'S GUIDE TO MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY is a school ca1aloguc designed IO give r,arent,
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National Montessori Media Center
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The Med,a Center w,11 b<gm 10 1ake film bookings for 1hc following… |
| Growing Up Monttssori
National Media Center
Video Programming
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| Seeking AMI teachers for primary classes (3-6) in
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