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...lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio State University (during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage, The Bent Twig, Home Fires in France, The Brimming...
...Madame Montessori is out of date; she knew nothing of expressionism and she had evidently not read the German philosopher. The new "experimental school" proposed in New York for children from four to six years of age surpasses her entirely...
...which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could do anything appreciable to remedy: because the remedy must be first applied at the very beginning of the child's formal education, that is, in the kindergarten or primary school. And precisely this is already being attempted by both the Montessori and the so-called Gary systems...
...Burke's hypothetical undergraduate, with his atrophied power of choice, necessitates nothing less than a complete retraction of elective ideals, rather than the retention of their best elements in a synthetic reform, the whole problem of American higher education will best be solved by the frank adoption of the Montessori System...
...Monthly closes with an editorial on "Electing Failure" in which it is contended that by the present system in force at Harvard "an infinite amount of concentration" is required accompanied by "an irreducible minimum of distribution." It is also explained why President Lowell is a Montessori father...