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...enjoy owning a share in the community and in its open land. And many participate in community organizations, attending school planning meetings or forming a committee to get the state circulating library to stop at Reston. Last year, a group of parents decided that they wanted to start a Montessori school, and 15 children now attend it. "I did not realize there would be so many cultural things to do," said one woman. Sports too--one of Simon's hobbies--are readily available and include tennis, sailing, fishing, golf, and skating...
Finn hopes that the nursery school will use techniques modeled after the Montessori method. He noted that the New York City Board of Education has instituted some 20 public nursery schools of this kind...
...only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular peg-and-hole toys from standard IQ tests, now makes a 100-bead counting board similar to the teaching materials of Montessori schools...
Profound Change? Some educators, such as Columbia Teachers College Professor Miriam Goldberg, think the Montessori boom will collapse, just as it did early in the century when John Dewey's brand of progressive education won out. On the other hand, others are just as sure that the current Montessori revival, coinciding with national concern for preschool education in general and for slum kids in particular, will profoundly change U.S. education...
...push at the moment," predicts John Henry Martin, superintendent of schools in Freeport, L.I., "will eventually force the public school system into running nursery schools. And the only thing on the horizon with the theoretical base and the classroom hardware for a modern nursery is the Montessori system." Adds Nancy Rambusch: "We've come full circle. We're back with the slum kids Maria Montessori started with...