Concept

Montessori education

Overview

teaching method based on Maria Montessori's ideas

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Johnson is trying an experiment under conditions which hold in public schools, and she believes that her methods are feasible for any public school system. She charges practically no tuition, and any child is welcome. She calls her methods of education “organic” because they follow the natural growth of the pupil. The school aims to provide for the child the occupations and activities necessary at each stage of…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
States what Montessori education is.
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It is argued that pupils must know how to use tools before they attack actual making,--assuming that pupils cannot learn how in the process of making. Pestalozzi's just insistence upon the active use of the senses, as a substitute for memorizing words, left behind it in practice schemes for "object lessons" intended to acquaint pupils with all the qualities of selected objects. The error is the same: in all these…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Montessori education; the term itself is not named.
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Manifestly, too, the course she is adopting is the one best calculated to establish a habit of exhaustive observation; which is the professed aim of these lessons. To _tell_ a child this and to _show_ it the other, is not to teach it how to observe, but to make it a mere recipient of another's observations: a proceeding which weakens rather than strengthens its powers of…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
Close in meaning to Montessori education; the term itself is not named.
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Part of Italian philosophy.

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