The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in The Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions by the Author

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F.A. Stokes, 1912 - 377 páginas
Certain aspects of the system are in themselves striking and significant: it adapts to the education of normal children methods and apparatus originally used for deficients; it is based on a radical conception of liberty for the pupil; it entails a highly formal training of separate sensory, motor, and mental capacities; and it leads to rapid, easy, and substantial mastery of the elements of reading, writing, and arithmetic. - Introduction.
 

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