Word: montessori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade took many forms, plunged aside against many a threatening windmill, but never faltered. She founded a Montessori school at Provincetown, where she spent her summers when she could. She went to Europe to report the 1915 International Congress of Women in Amsterdam. She ventured through War-time Germany just after the sinking of the Lusitania. She toured the French devastated areas to find out how the civilians were making out. She got home to find her husband dying of cancer...
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...
...Montessori Plan early took root in the U. S. The debut was handled by Anne E. George, onetime teacher in the Chicago Latin School, a graduate of the 1910-11 training course. Through her efforts, Frank Arthur Vanderlip started a Montessori school for his own and neighbors' children in his Scarborough, N. Y., home. Miss George went to Washington to further the Montessori cause. There she met Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell with whom she founded the Montessori Educational Association. Mrs. Bell was the Association's President. A school was begun on Kalorama Road, near the present home...
Products. Among famed U. S. children who have been educated under the Montessori methods are the grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera...
...system, derived from Dewey philosophy, now used at Columbia University Teachers College, differs from the Montessori plan in that it stresses the child's supervised intellectual growth rather than its undirected development. At Columbia the pupil is taken to see a hangar full of airplanes which he is encouraged to copy in clay, wax or crayon in the classroom. Under the Dewey method, the child has opportunity for creative expression which the less plastic Montessori equipment does not allow...