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...tenements built. Families living in them were better housed than most of the city's poor families, but during the day, while the adults were at work, urchins reveled in the courtyards, ran riot in the long halls. Signor Talamo set aside playrooms for the children, urged Dottoressa Montessori to take them in hand. Thus was founded the first Casa del Bambini. Such establishments, subsequently organized in the U. S. and England, came to be known as "Children's Houses...
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...
Upon three tenets Dottoressa Montessori rests her scheme of education: 1) "The Doctrine of Freedom," 2) Auto-education, 3) Sense-training...
...Doctrine of Freedom" is calculated to encourage spontaneity of development in the child. Given the proper environment, the happy child can do no wrong. In no way must the individuality of a Montessori-trained youngster be arrested, nor is the pupil stimulated to any unnatural effort. The system of "rewards & punishment" is un-Montessorian because it encourages the child to do something it would not want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children...
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...