The children are initiated into the virtue of patience Signorina Maccheroni, Directress, first of the "Children's House" in Milan and later in the one in Franciscan Convent at Rome, has invented and has had manufactured a series of thirteen bells hung upon a wooden frame. The child who wrote a word for the first time was full of excited joy. Now that the Montessori system adds a new and promising method to our resources, it is the more unreasonable: for as a fact normal children are eager to read and write at six, and have plenty of use for these accomplishments. It was as if I gave to them some vital force But in all this progress of modern child education, we have not freed [Page 39]  Simple gymnastics: Ordinary movements done The incidental features which she has frankly taken over from other modern educators she has chosen because they fit into the fundamental form of her own scheme, and she has unified them all in her general conception of method. When a child in our school knows how to write, he knows how to read the sounds of which the word is composed. The simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. There can be no doubt that Dr. Montessori has devised a peculiarly successful scheme for teaching children to write, an effective method for the introduction of reading, and good material for early number work. The first period of these exercises is at the time when the child is obliged to make repeated trials with figures that are strongly contrasted in form. Our children have, for example, among the didactic material for the education of the senses, a series of ten cubes. In this way the task of the physician will also be made easier, because of its regularity. Such gymnastics, reasonably directed by means of various devices, aid in the formation of the intellect, just as physical exercises fortify the general health and quicken the growth In conclusion, let me summarize briefly: Our didactic material renders auto-education possible, permits a methodical education of the senses. they may enjoy good health and have excellent Our children were making lists of the marketing they did for their mothers! Simply copy it to the References page as is. Some of them reproduce, with surprising minuteness of detail, objects which they have seen. It is indeed the final result, as Dr. Montessori proudly asserts, of years of experimental effort both on her own part and on the part of her great predecessors; but the crystallisation of these experiments in a programme of education for normal children is due to Dr. Montessori alone. At first this name provoked many smiles, for everyone asked whom there was for this teacher to direct, since she had no assistants, and since she must leave her little scholars in liberty. I have spoken thus in order that you may understand the great significance, the real beauty, of this humble room, which seems like a bit of the house itself set apart by a mother's hand for the use and happiness of the children of the Quarter. Anthropometric measurements, baths, training in personal self-care, the serving of meals, gardening, and the care of animals we may hear sweepingly recommended for all schools, even for those with a three-hour session and a socially favored class of pupils; but the need for individual He is allotted only sufficient space for sitting in an erect position. We have herded them together far from us, without the walls, leaving them to learn of each other, in the abandon of desperation, the cruel lessons of brutality and vice. There are muffled sounds of objects lightly moved about, of children tiptoeing. The muscular mechanism, necessary to the management of the instrument of writing, is established. The circles, big and little, enter their frames no matter how they are turned about. Nevertheless, he is still dependent, since he is not yet able to walk, and cannot wash and dress himself, and since he is not yet able to ask for things in a language which is clear and easily understood. attempted an original method for the teaching of reading and writing, a part of the under proper guidance if it is to be educationally effective. In the school for deficients I had made and applied these insets in the same form used by my illustrious predecessors. Third. This concept, so brilliantly set forth by De Vries in his Everyone felt this, and many said, "There is still so much to be done for normal children!". How many men have had this experience! At the same time I made researches in Pedagogic Anthropology in the elementary schools, studying in this way the methods in organisation used for the education of normal children. [Page 154]. Nomenclature. Milk and Eggs. These pieces are cylindrical in shape and are to be handled by means of a little wooden or brass button which is fixed in the centre of the top. Indeed, penmanship is a superior form of teaching and is necessary to correct defects already acquired and fixed. Obedience naturally is sacrifice. We have prepared a number of outline drawings which the children are to fill in with coloured pencil, and, later on, with a brush, preparing for themselves the water-colour tints which they will use. beyond nine. their eagerness. There were those who closed the blinds, and then reopened them; others who made their companions run on tiptoe, or sing; others wrote upon the blackboard, or took certain objects from the cupboards. the exercises of practical life, cleaning the room, dusting, The meat should be left to Crisp crackers, biscuits, and This commonplace episode in the life of that child, is a detail of what happens to all children, even the best and most cherished. From such a starting point we proceed to the free teaching. Here "Fufu," as he was called, experiences his first wish to be kind, and feels the first moving of his soul when he is near to the pretty little Fufetta, and learns that she is hungry and has no luncheon. [Page 253]  As I have already indicated, sugar and some fat substances along with kitchen salt (sodium chloride) should The little one was swaddled, as is still the custom among the people of Rome–an infant thus in the swaddling bands is called by us a pupa. [Page 123]  Between the years of six and seven the proportion of the torso to the stature is from 57 to 56 per cent. And how great would be the progress made in the matter of family hygiene, in all that relates to isolation and disinfection! Such a vision Then, he takes away the frame, and upon the paper there remains a geometric figure. we must begin our work by preparing the child for the No times at all." In this way the house will become a centre, drawing unto itself all those good things which have hitherto been lacking: schools, public baths, hospitals, etc. freely. YES!" Children must never eat raw vegetables, such as salads and greens, but only cooked ones; indeed they It makes me both very happy and terrified to think it could be getting a wider readership. "The rational sign, on the contrary, has a name because it has a direction and since all writing or design is nothing other than a composite of the diverse directions followed by a line, we must, before approaching what is commonly called writing, insist upon these notions of plane and line. We must understand by gymnastics and in general by muscular education a series of exercises tending to aid the normal development of physiological movements (such as walking, breathing, speech), to protect this development, when the child shows himself backward or abnormal in any way, and to encourage in the children those movements which are useful in the achievement of the most ordinary acts of life; such as dressing, undressing, buttoning their clothes and lacing their shoes, carrying such objects as balls, cubes, etc. After three or four successive lessons, the child recognises the geomet- Butter is then added, and the paste is stirred ", I then begin the sibilant St! placed along the wall of the tenement, in a spot formerly neglected because Whenever the deficient child committed an error, it was necessary to correct it, or to urge him to correct it himself, and when he was able to correct an error he was usually quite indifferent. Here, for the first time is born the abstract concept of the geometric figure, for, from two metal pieces so different in form as the frame and the inset, there has resulted the same design, which is a line expressing a determined figure. Sometimes there is given to us a moment when we fancy ourselves to be among When we offer the child some unexpected foreign object, as, for example, a sheet of paper, a veil, the little assembly trembles as it awaits his response. The same may be said for the tests of the chromatic sense, etc. While jellies and marmalades may be allowed, candied fruits,–on the other [Page 240]. The district of San Lorenzo sprang into being between 1884 and 1888 at the time of the great building fever. But let us observe the spontaneous drawings of normal children. He will hear his parents speak of the square table, the oval table, etc., and these words in common use will Evidently the rational method of combating spinal curvature in the pupils, is to change the form of their work–so that they shall no longer be obliged to remain for so many hours a day in a harmful position. Let us consider what the music master does in giving instruction in piano playing. These representations return to the mind of the child when he performs the exercise of superimposing the corresponding wooden figures. [Page xlii]  His plans, so original, so comprehensive, yet so practical, are without counterpart in Italy or elsewhere. Each one as he is called, lifts his head, opens his eyes as if altogether happy, then rises, silently seeking not to move the chair, and walks on the tips of his toes, so quietly that he is scarcely heard. The tendency toward social liberty is most evident, and manifests itself on every hand. I did a thing which I had not done before, and which perhaps few students have been willing to do,–I translated into Italian and copied out with my own hand, the writings of these men, from beginning to end, making for myself books as the old Benedictines used to do before the diffusion of printing. graceful movement, etc. slowly into the boiling water, care being taken that it dissolves and leaves no lumps. And indeed San Lorenzo is not the People's Quarter, it is the Quarter of the poor. Under this last head technical education may be considered as having a place, since it teaches the individual to make use of his surroundings. The baby loves to walk on all fours just because, like the quadruped animals, his limbs are short in comparison with his body. civilised life is made by renunciation of the life of nature; it is almost The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. One of his most outstanding lines of reasoning derives from coming alongside of the poor as the starting point in authentic dialogue paving the way for true education and ultimately liberation of the oppressed. The tenants more readily learn to respect the building and acquire habits of cleanliness and order. In this first writing we still demand that the single strokes be kept parallel, making the child's task a difficult and barren one, since it has no purpose for the child, who does not understand the meaning of all this detail. Anyone who has watched them setting the table must have passed from one surprise to another. [Page 280]  bottom of the same cup which is to she mistook a mandolin for a baby. The home shall become more than this. But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to sky. Look at my apron. Every page of the register corresponds to a month. almost infinite form, as we see in Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek art. dense fog!". Now the normal child, instead, takes spontaneously a lively interest in this game. The children, after they had made the effort necessary to maintain silence, enjoyed the sensation, took pleasure in the silence itself. [Page 10]. study the sick and to select subjects for the clinics. In all of this, we call their attention Does it not seem strange, for instance, that after the discovery by Laveran of the malarial parasite which invades the red blood-corpuscles, we did not, in spite of the fact that we know the blood system to be a system of closed vessels, even so much as suspect the possibility that a stinging insect might inoculate us with the parasite? The chief trouble lay in confusing the experimental study of the pupil, with his education. [Page 342]  We often see the purchaser throwing himself upon the honesty of the merchant, or putting his faith in the company, or the label upon the box. One beautiful December day when the sun shone and the air was like spring, I went up on the roof with the children. At Now one who has learned to spell mechanically all the words in his spelling-book, would be able to read in the same mechanical way the words in one of Shakespeare's plays, provided the print were sufficiently clear. ; that is, from that state of repose and order, well understood, they depart in order to undertake some voluntary action; and knowing that there are actions which are prohibited, this will give them a new impulse to remember to discriminate between good and evil. Among fruits there are excellent foods for children. In this way the didactic material described below had its origin. Every school must work out its own solution of the problem in the face of its particular conditions. It is the same way in life, for, deeper than any social distinction, there lies an equality, a common meeting point, where all men are brothers, or, as in the spiritual life, aspirants and saints again and again pass through the same experiences. liberty and for the training of the senses will be denied even in the work of schools where the conditions correspond closely to those at San Lorenzo. The mutations are bound by some mysterious tie And here we have another reform the expense of which may be considered as indirectly assumed by the tenants as was the care of the building. When we first played this game it often happened that the children took more objects than were called for upon the card, and this was not always because they did not remember the number, but arose from a mania for the having the greatest number of objects. (B) SHOE BUTTONING. been with the children? When, for example, picking up a fallen twig, they trace figures in the sandy garden path, we never see short straight lines, but long and variously interlaced curves. It was with great surprise that I noted the facility with which a deficient child, to whom I one day gave a piece of chalk, traced upon the blackboard, in a firm hand, the letters of the entire alphabet, writing for the first time. [Page 117]  My way of treating this was to encourage the child to make use of the games for the chromatic sense. the child. objects and especially monuments and historic buildings. The Lesson on Zero. If discipline is to be lasting, its foundations must be laid in this way and these first days are the most difficult for the directress. because his will-power was allowed to grow only in the shade, disappears in our schools. With very young children linguistic education must occupy a most important place. In each of our schoolrooms we have provided a series of long low cupboards, especially designed for the reception We see equally piteous cases of religious fanaticism, or we look upon intimate dramatic struggles between the heart, ever seeking its own safe and quiet port, and the mind that constantly draws it back to the sea of conflicting ideas and emotions, where peace is unknown. Such a lack will show itself much more plainly in culinary operations. But putting aside this purely scientific side of the question, the education of the senses must be of the greatest pedagogical interest. psychometric material. After this we have a series of exercises in which the Discipline must come through liberty. the child, is not accepted by him as an explanation of the from century to century the yokes of every form of slavery. The distance between the seat and the desk was calculated with infinite care, in order that the child's back should not become deformed, and, finally, the seats were separated and the width so closely calculated that the child could barely seat himself upon it, while to stretch himself by making any lateral movements was impossible. [Page 42]  The teacher was having the children march, leading them about the courtyard between the walls of the house and the central garden. nourished; but because he has arrived at that particular There are, therefore, sixty-four colour-tablets in all. [Page 354]  It was furnished with a cover so arranged that it would contain six of the square frames with their insets. A description of the objects will be given as the educational scope of each is explained. To social change in teaching the perfect silence the certain call, sugared milk may be recorded thus: ;... 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