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New York : Schocken Books ; c1965. Later printing
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The Montessori method revolutionized how children were educated. In Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook, Maria Montessori explains the basic of her system, how it works and why it works. There are dozens of figures to help illustrate her points. "My method is scientific, both in its substance and in its aim. It makes for the attainment of a more advanced stage of progress, in directions no longer only material and physiological."
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“This book is addressed to teachers, parents, educational therapists—to all those who can use a short guide to one of the most powerful sets of ideas and practices on the education of children.
The Handbook contains a detailed and clear description of Dr. Montessori's didactic materials and
Taken from the Back Cover.
The Handbook contains a detailed and clear description of Dr. Montessori's didactic materials and
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their use. These learning tools are the original "teaching machines" for young children. Designed to develop and refine the child's visual, auditory and tactile perceptions, they contain within their structure controls of possible error. The child educates himself. Intelligence is stimulated as increasing powers of observation, recognition, judgment and classification are developed. The child whose early education has been enriched by Montessori procedures is better prepared for later schooling. In the author's own words, the Montessori education is a "preparation for the first stages of essential culture - writing, reading, and numbers - and that knowledge comes as an easy, spontaneous and logical consequence of the preparation, that it is in fact its natural conclusion."Taken from the Back Cover.
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