A Montessori mother / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; with an introduction by Edmond Holmes.

  • Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Date:
1913
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Credit: A Montessori mother / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ; with an introduction by Edmond Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as an adult, a vision which will be that of a veritable superman, compared to the unreliable eyesight on which his parents have had to depend for information. It is of no especial importance that he shall learn quickly to distinguish with his eyes shut that a piece of maple the same size as a piece of pine is the heavier of the two. It is of the utmost importance that he shall learn to take in accurate information about the phenomena of the world, by whichever sense is most convenient, or by all of them at once, cor- recting and supplementing each other as they so seldom do with us ill-trained adults.