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When the Queen Mother Margherita saw fit to favor the enterprise, influential Italians poured gold and good advice upon the Casa del Bambini. It was here, after 13 years of germination, that the Montessori Plan first came to full fruition. The results of Dottoressa's clinical experience with dull children were to be objectively applied to normal ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Upon three tenets Dottoressa Montessori rests her scheme of education: 1) "The Doctrine of Freedom," 2) Auto-education, 3) Sense-training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Scope. To expound her system, Dottoressa Montessori has held 14 international training courses. The fifteenth, which begins this week in Rome, will last until the end of June. Thrice a week she will lecture to elementary teachers, students of pedagogy, parents who have "problem children." Under her direction there will be held some 70 practical demonstrations of her "didactic" contraptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Italian disciples "and members of religious orders" will pay 1,000 lira ($52) for the five-month course, foreigners will be charged ?30 ($146). Although the Dottoressa has understood English since 1917, she speaks it seldom and circumspectly. The lectures will be delivered in Italian. For those who will not be able to understand her, translation will cost one guinea ($5.11) per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

History. Three principal Roman schools where the Montessori plan is in effect are the Via Trionfale school, the Via Fuà Fusinata school Casa del Bambini, the convent school in the Via Giusti. In none of these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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