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At first it will be mortifying to see that she is not always good, understanding, tolerant, controlled, and, above all, without needs, for these have been the basis of her self-respect.
Alice Miller • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
I’ve oft wondered, “Why don’t we have a feature length film on Montessori?” She was an incredible person w an incredible life. This doesn’t get into the attack on her by Columbia U Ed professor that killed Montessori Ed in the US for 40 years, nor Mussolini pushing her out, etc.
Michael Strongx.comlearning. Making mistakes is the most natural way to learn.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Childhood Learning
Anthony Fiedler • 1 card
Adlerian Psychology
Jolaade Taiwo • 1 card
At the end of the nineteenth century, John Dewey, the American philosopher and educator, had pioneered the concept of the experimental, or laboratory, school. For most of his career, Dewey had no special interest in China, but in the spring of 1919 he was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Japan. When Dewey was in Tokyo, a delegation of
... See morePeter Hessler • Other Rivers
Everyone in education wants to help children develop a Love of Learning™
But nobody cares about the far more important and high-stakes task of helping a child develop a love of *effort*
Nobody, that is, except Montessori:
Samantha Joyx.comAt one point I invited two Stanford seniors who had attended Montessori through middle school to speak to the families at a Montessori middle school I had created in Palo Alto.
When asked if their Montessori education had made a difference, they said academically not at all. But they said they were much more... See more
Michael Strongx.comIn the 1600s, John Amos Comenius, who is often referred to as “the grandfather of modern education” called schools “the slaughterhouse of the mind,” where he saw them devoted primarily to the boring and sometimes brutally-enforced study of Latin by “stuffing and flogging”. He went on to argue for education to follow “the lead of nature. A rational... See more