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la nature au sens large d’une « globalisation de l’école » (la rue, la cité, une cuisine, un jardin, etc.) offrait, selon Decroly, la possibilité d’éveiller la curiosité cognitive des enfants, d’où l’observation, l’expérimentation, le contact direct avec les choses (Rousseau) et la construction manuelle (Decroly,
Oliver Houde • L'école du cerveau: De Montessori, Freinet et Piaget aux sciences cognitives (PSY. Théories, débats, synthèses t. 15) (French Edition)
original work without the support of the teacher.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Education must not simply teach work. It must teach life.
W.E.B. DuBois
My dream was very logical. A world not under God’s law is soon a world in which only tyranny prevails. Moral order is replaced by statist order, and man ceases to be a person before the law. We should remember that John Dewey, the father of modern statist education, was skeptical about personal consciousness and conscience. For him the reality was
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Thoughts on Education
Daniel Wentsch • 11 cards
In the following months, I discovered that Montessori education is about much more than freedom for children. It requires a prepared teacher who understands how children develop and who is experienced in establishing a structured environment that meets their needs at each successive age. The children are not “free to do as they like,” as I had
... See morePaula Polk Lillard • Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
In the United States politics are the end and aim of education; in Europe its principal object is to fit men for private life.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
John Dewey argued that every political project needs to create the public that can be its author.8 In the same way, every utopia has to call into existence the public necessary for its creation, a public that can champion and own it.