The Montessori manual : in which Dr. Montessori's teachings and educational occupations are arranged in practical exercises or lessons for the mother or the teacher / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

  • Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The Montessori manual : in which Dr. Montessori's teachings and educational occupations are arranged in practical exercises or lessons for the mother or the teacher / by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And this simple, industrious, tranquil life, with no excitements of joining in adult “pleasures”; full of profitable “play” which is educational, and per- meated with a sense of responsibility on the child’s part for the conduct of his own life, is the Mon- I tcssori life for a child between two and seven. It is not enough that he construct the Tower, and the Long Stair, and learn his sandpaper letters perfectly; he must learn to be a self-dependent, self-respecting, self-trusting citizen of his little world. EXERCISE TWENTY-THREE FIRST STEPS IN ARITHMETIC Counting Boxes and Sandpaper Numbers.—We have now to consider the question of arithmetic and the Montessori application of the subject to the child of the average American home. There is a preju- dice in the minds of most Americans about pre- senting mathematics to children under six, no matter how simply it may be arranged. My own experi- ence, backed up by that of the Casa dei Bambini, is that children over three take a lively interest in the sequence of numbers, and in some of the simpler processes of arithmetic, if those processes can be presented to them in a sufficiently concrete form. The Montessori apparatus for this purpose is very simple, and can be supplemented by several other devices, easily obtained in any home.