The Montessori manual : in which Dr. Montessori's teachings and educational occupations are arranged in practical exercises or lessons for the mother or the teacher / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

  • Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The Montessori manual : in which Dr. Montessori's teachings and educational occupations are arranged in practical exercises or lessons for the mother or the teacher / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MONTESSORI MANUAL i SOMETHING WRONG WITH MODERN EDUCATION One of the most distinguishing features of twen- tieth-century life is the deep-rooted, wide-spread dissatisfaction with the way modern children are being educated. In most great world-centers one finds the same naive certainty that there, in that spot, the problem is most insoluble, and that else- where conditions are better. In our America everyone is decrying our national fault of cheap superficiality as the poison of our schools and look- ing with longing eyes toward the “thoroughness” of German and English methods. In England they are bewailing their hide-bound, slow conserv- atism and envying American flexibility and quick- ness in facing the problem of education. In France they are appalled at the mental inertia of the pupils and in Germany they are crying out that their insistence on the letter has killed the spirit.