Word: dottoressa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child education on the tough sons & daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed to spread her doctrines to parents-especially the parents of children of pre-school age. Parents who read it will find that she knocks some accepted notions of child-raising into a very queerly-shaped...
...child's soul, says Dottoressa Montessori, develops through a series of "sensitive periods"-times when it has a preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1½ years old, says she, can walk more than a mile if they are allowed to select their own pace. Other dicta...
...venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress on Education & Peace...
...veteran of international congresses, which she has been attending to expound her theories of child education all over Europe since the turn of the Century, the Dottoressa was welcomed by Danish newspapers as "the greatest living Italian orator." Using no notes, waiting patiently for her interpreters, last week the Dottoressa wanted to talk about children from a new point of view. ''The adult," she declared, "must understand the meaning of the moral defence of humanity, not the armed defence of nations. He must realize that the child will be the creator of the new world peace...
...British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training school for teachers until hostilities caused her to leave last summer, came an excited cable from the Catalonian Government promising that 150 Montessori schools would soon be open for 60,000 young Catalans...