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MARIA MONTESSORI WORK byE. M. Standing THREE FIGURES have dominated modern education Dewey, Froebel and Montessori. The first according to his increasingly vociferous critics applied a stranglehold to U.S. peda gogy that is much to blame for our current woes. The latter two, have had much more influence on European education. Dr. Montessori who died only six years ago (although in 1957 an Inter national Montessori Congress was held in Rome to celebrate the50th anniver sary of the opening of the; first Mon tessori School) is beginning to find belated but excitedly mounting recog nition in America. Recently JUBILEE Magazine devoted an extraordinarily charming picture story to Whitby School, one of the first elementary schools in this country to adopt the Montessori Method in its entirety. Actually, of course, the "Montessori Method" (as opposed to those of both Dewey and Froebel) isrefreshinglyfree of dogma and theory. Maria Mon- tessoris revolutionary contribution aspragmatic and experimentally evolved as the discoveries ofFreud and Jung was that children have a pas sion for learning, for work and order, for self-discipline, that has to be; en couraged rather than enforced: that left to themselves in the right environ ment, with the simplest of equipment, the normal child has the- dedication to discovery of an adult genius. Examples abound in this book of what has been done with the most recalcitrant chil dren, too slum children, delinquents mentally retarded youngsters, infants in missionary schools in all sorts of backward areas. Perhaps the most convincing thing about this book is the absence of rhe toric, gobbledy-gook, exposition, special pleading. Dr. Montessori emerges by indirection, in quotations from her (Continued on back flap) MAR 23 1977 MAY r 2 1 1979 MAI OCT o i 1989 65-46369 92 ?.C731s Standing Maria Montessori, hex life and work DA t i 1965- DEC 81966 Maria Montessori HER LIFE AND WORK Maria Montessori. A portrait by Sir Frank Salisbury E. M. STANDING MARIA MONTESSORI Her and work life ACADEMY LIBRARY GUILD FRESNO CALIFORNIA Copyright by Hollis & GarterLimited 1957 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION This book is copyright. No portion ofit may bereproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressedto the publishers. Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 59-12591 Manufactured in theUnited States in 1959 by the Sierra Printing and Lithography Company, Fresno for THE ACADEMY LIBRARY GUILD BOX 549 FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
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