Life must become the focal point and education the means |
excerpt from 'From Childhood to Adolescence' by Dr Maria Montessori:
from Appendix C - The Function of the University
Education does not consist in discovering new methods useful in the arid tran...
Posted by on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:33:00 GMT |
What is the Montessori Method? answered by Montessori in less than 100 words) |
From The Formation of Man, Clio edition, From Montessori's Introduction:What is the Montessori Method?One would like to know in a few clear words what the Montessori Method really is.If we were to eli...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:44:00 GMT |
The Role of the Montessori Teacher in the Children's House (ages 3 - 6) |
From 'The Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches and Writings", Dr. Maria Montessori. Published by Clio Extract from a Course Lecture, Barcelona, 1933:What is it that teachers must d...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:15:00 GMT |
The peace makers |
San Remo Lecture, 1949, 8th International Montessori CongressLecture 1: The Creative Capacity of Early Childhood&education must commence from the time when the human being is not yet defined, when spi...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:59:00 GMT |
On the 100 year anniversary of the opening of the first Casa |
From the Secret of Childhood, Sangam editionfrom the chapter entitled 'How it Originated': "I was January 6, 1907, when the first school was opened for small, normal childrem between 3 and 6 years of...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:57:00 GMT |
3-6 |
From Chapter 26 of Creative Development, Volume 1 (great new, detailed and practical book from Kalakshetra!)Why is it necessary to give these exercises so early in the child's life? Would it not be be...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:19:00 GMT |
Education for Life (and Peace) |
From the Chapter, Education for Life The Absorbent Mind, published by Delta 1989...What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man... To recognize the great work of t...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:39:00 GMT |
Words from Gandhi at Montessori Teacher Training Center |
Thank you to www.peace.ca and Young India for making this text available.Speech At Montessori Training College Mohandas K. GandhiLondon, October 28, 1931 The following is the text of Gandhi's Speech,...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:43:00 GMT |
Love and the child |
from "Intelligence of Love" in Secret of Childhood, Orient Longman publisher:The adult passes by this mystical love withour perceiving it......What is it but love that urges the child to go to his par...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:33:00 GMT |
Ruminations on the Infant |
from Creative Development in the Child:&why does the young child remain inert for such a long period? The new-born child does nothing special, not because he is incapable of doing anything, but ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:16:00 GMT |
