A Montessori mother / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; with an introduction by Edmond Holmes.

  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Date:
1913
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Credit: A Montessori mother / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; with an introduction by Edmond Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or more animal self. For, on the one hand, by thwarting the outgrowth of his higher instincts, it allows his lower desires and passions to draw to themselves too much of the rising sap of his life. And, on the other hand, by imposing on him the discipline of drill instead of helping him to discipline himself, it weakens his will and so incapacitates him for keeping those desires and passions under due control. In these ways dogmatism in education sins against what Froebel called the “ true man- hood ”—the universal or ideal nature—of the child. And, by treating all children alike, and ignoring their respective idiosyncrasies, it sins in no less a degree against the individuality of the child, the meaning and value of the latter lying in this that it determines the particular way in which “ true manhood ” will best unfold itself in that particular child,—the particular way in which, in the fullness of time, his individuality itself will best be outgrown and left behind. The pity of it is, that when the child, who has been thus maimed, stunted, atrophied, and paralyzed by education, grows to manhood, he will impose his own type of personality, by means of dogmatic pressure, on the rising
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