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...their own pace, they become more self-reliant and confident. A three-year-old lies on a rubber mat, arranging a washbasin and cups; a five-year-old, blindfolded with a blue eyeshade, feels a sphere, a cube, a cylinder, following out some blueprint in his mind. - See EDUCATION, Montessori in the Slums...
Founding the first modern Montessori school in the U.S. turned red-haired Nancy McCormick Rambusch from a housewife into a stormy prophetess. Her success in setting up the Whitby School in Greenwich, Conn., led to so much demand for her advice that she went on to start the American Montessori Society. "I'm sort of the Mary Baker Eddy of this organization," she remarks, a little ruefully. But Nancy Rambusch is proud that beginning with Whitby in 1958, the Montessori movement in the U.S. has grown to 100 private schools (38 of them belonging to her A.M.S...
Heresy. The Whitby School was chartered from Amsterdam, headquarters of the international Montessori movement...
There, Mario Montessori, natural son of the Italian woman who worked out the method, has carried on since her death in 1952 at 81. But when Head mistress Rambusch insisted on relaxing the strict discipline of the original Montessori dogma, Mario called her a heretic and withdrew the charter. "My task has been to create a society for the maintenance of the 'pure' Montessori," he explains with a sigh...
...Maria Montessori stated that there was no such thing as a nonmathematical mind. It was only the result of poor teaching. It would appear that she was far ahead of her time...