THE HONGKONG.
EURDAY NOVEMBER
THE MONTESSORI
SYSTEM.
ITS EFFECT ON MODERN CIVILISATION.
Contribution to Local Discussion.
[Special to the "Telegraph,"
In view of the discussion at your keynote of self education the last meeting of the Board and 'mental freedom" forsooth! of Education on the proposed Mr. Squeers, as Head of the teaching of children in one of our Dotheboys Hall, did much the schools on the lines enunciated same as this, though perhaps his by Dr. Montessori, and also by cleavage line between good and reason of the fact that an article evil would not exactly coincide
explaining"
the
Montessori with Dr. Montessori's. But then, system appeared later in the which of ours would? Daily Press over the signature of Thus the." liberty" stunt is all "LF" the following article will bunkum. All Dr. Montessori doubtless be read with great in means, apparently, by liberty is terest. The writer, a local edu parmission to do what she thinks cadonist. boldly criticises the proper, and she must "suppress alli system, claiming that the age, those things which we must not does not call for more "liberty" do."
He writes:-
U.S. PRESIDENCY.
Senator Johnson, (liable always to generate into The real feat of the matter is licence) but for greater discipline. that every child with any spirit who will present himself for Re
always wants to do all those publican nomination to the Pre- Few aspects in modern civil- things which he must not de. He sidency. isation have been more com-just wants to put the 'round mented on than the prevalent cylinders in square holes or to "revolt" in all classes of society use them as skittles. When red The labourer won't work: the lights are to be turned on he housemaid refuses to exist as wants to turn on a green one. such; the mechanic prefers the The child grows up and becomes unemployment dole: the shop a railway signalman and still assistant does not see why he turns on a green light when a red the should assist, In every work of one is wanted-and gets life the most conspicuous attitude sack. The question is how or is “revolt.” Our prophets and where is the signalman to obtain men of vision see this. and they that discipline which will enable paint no rosy pictures of our him to turn on the light he does future. To realise this we have not want to stick to the post he only to read Dead Inge's larents does me like ?.
and denunciations of so-called, Dr. Montessori is in this a "progress."
¡broken reed. Had the door been
-..
Now it is not a mere coinci-left open at school I should cer- dence that the appearance of this tainly have left the school: and phase in our modern state coin-I have never yet seen the school cides roughly with the rise of the I should not rather be out of. If toaching of Dr. Montessori. Those 1 could avoid it I would avoid my of us who were at school before work
now. But I must get
and the system was adumbrated have money
food somewhere. witnessed the indirect effects of Where did I learn this dis bor teaching in the gradual scipline of submission to work growth of licence spreading over which now makes me submit to much larger class than her my daily routine? It was the direct teachings reached. The ten years of daily submission to great principle of Dr. Montessori, the drudgery of algebra, greek of course, was the principle of and geometry which instilled the freedom. Physical freedom is lesson of the larger discipline of not enough. There must be life.
that
statesman will not
Mr. W. McAdoo,
who is willing to stand as Demo- cratic candidate.
JAPAN'S BUDGET.
ARMY AND NAVY VOTES REDUCED.
mental freedom as well. And The fact of the matter is that true mental freedom is impossible the state and society do not want for those who habitually accept what the Montessori method the authority of another." The seems TO produce euphemis
Tokyo, Nov. 14 (delayed.) Montessori Principles and Practically called * independence
The Budget estimates for 1924 tice': Prof. Culverwell). On and
self-reliance. It may show decreases as follow:-in this account error in a teacher's be
the
revenue, 129 million yen: in work is not revealed in the child. and the employer
expenditure 104 million. The "The key-note of the method," value very highly individual in difference is being made up by says a writer in the Daily Press, dependence and self reliance but carrying forward 25 million yen "is self education." But over two rather regard them as menaces to from this year. The expenditure of the largest spheres where ed- the state if found in great abund estimates for every department ucation should act "self educa- ance." Daily Press. Of course. tion" is a meaningless term- The present state of society does are reduced, except education, which is increased by three morals and manners.
not want independent" girls who
million owing the school No matter how carefully. the kick at domestic service. It wants
rebuilding programme. so-called system is stated there is 3,000 more domestic servants. always the rift in the lute, the Our educational system, what- little must("the children mustjover one we adopt, has to produce be made to", etc).
the type that submits to the
"Of course the liberty enjoyed drudgery of work, not the "inde- by the pupils is not allowed to pendent finsolent some people degenerate into licence. The call it) type of lady' who won't! cylinders Arce got to be fitted into clean the house. There is just their respective holes and not to one other thing it has to do. It be used as skittles: the child must has to see that it does not suffo- respect the rights of his neigh- cate or kill the one in two million bours." (Daily Press p. 5, italics who makes progress and educa- mice).
tion possible. The teacher must Even Dr. Montessori herself have enough brains to recognise has to throw her principles to the him, to see that he gets differen- wind when it comes to moralitial treatment and whatever hel instruction and manners. "I saw requires.
children with their feet on the "Educate your millions, and tables, or with their fingers in bring to every boy and girl in this their coses, and no intervention country the benefits of as sound: was made to correct them. I saw and thorough an education as others push their companions, you can afford. The fact remains and I saw dawn in the faces of that for sheer practical value to these an expression of violence; the community and hard cash in then I had to intervene, the pockets of each member of it, to show with what absolute there are a few, say one in every rigour it is necessary to million, who are worth as much to hinder, and little by little the community as the rest of the suppress, all those things which million put together, and whom! we must not do, so that if you miss or merge with the child may come to discern rest, the education of the million between good and evil." This will avail you little indeed."
A LULL AT CANTON, White Cloud Hill and Shaho. This line would provide an easy means of retreat to the north.
PREPARING FOR A BIG
BATTLE
The Kuomintang Party has commenced the organisation of a Volunteer Corps, and so far some 200 members have been
There is not a great deal of enrolled. fresh news from Canton to-day. It is learned, however, that the train service from Canton is much.! curtailed and that the service is only operating as far as Chai Bi, from which point many wounded
GUY FAWKES LAMP. soldiers have recently been sent to Canton. There has been no Many people are probably fighting during the past two days, unaware that the original lantern and it is assumed that both sides used by Guy Fawkes is still in are reorganising their forces for existence. Strolling through the a big battle which soon Ashmolean Museum at Oxford a
is expected.
man discovered it on the first Dr. Bun is stated to have floor in a glass case labelled: appointed General Young Hi-"Historical Antiquities." Th man, the Yunnanese general, as lantern was given to the Univere Commander-in-Chief of the wholety in 1641 by Robert Heywood- Constitutional forces, which are who was son of the justice who, now preparing defence lines from arrested Fawkes on November 5, Chai Bi along Shekpai to the 1695.
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