The Montessori system in theory and practice : an introduction to the pedagogic methods of Dr. Maria Montessori / by Theodate L. Smith.

  • Theodate Louise Smith
Date:
1912
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Credit: The Montessori system in theory and practice : an introduction to the pedagogic methods of Dr. Maria Montessori / by Theodate L. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MONTESSORI SYSTEM I DR. MARIA MONTESSORI WITHIN the last few years an experiment in elementary education has been going on in Rome which is productive of such remarkable results that it is attracting wide-spread interest in all educational circles. In Dr. Maria Mon- tessori’s Case dei Bambini, children from four to five years old read, write, and do number work with a facility equal to that of children of the second and third grades, and this result has come about with no overexertion on the part of the child and without the slightest forcing, but as a process of normal development. Dr. Montessori’s method is due to no fortuitous circumstances, but is the result of years of scientific research, and is founded on anthropological and psychological
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