Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...purposes which have been accepted have been largely sentimental in nature. They have been based upon the apparent assumption either that every individual has an unquestioned right to all the education which he wants, or his parents want for him--at public expense, or that the more education a pupil can be given of whatever nature the better it is for him and for the State. In consequence, there is to be found today a wide variety of purposes guiding our public school work,--purposes which may conflict with each other or give inadequate recognition to each other, not merely...