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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932.

woman opens the windows it is CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. nat, as a rule, to lot in the spirit

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to be "awfully nice" without giv her College was "a plant, not ing pride of place to either. It

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""DENLAWERS" enlightened, useful women." Or Montessori, as well as some of the Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- we might retrace the uphill works about her, makes it clear that formed that all doods are being fight of Margaret McMillan for she rings the changes, now on one, landed at their

risk into tha all the ideals embodied in the now on another of the following hazardous and/or extra hazardous

movement, nursery school

If five points:

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1. Due importance attached to Bonso education; 2. "Spontaneous Development" and this s60ms to be the kernel of her system; 3. In dividual Characteristics studied; 4 Porfect-liberty; (not whim); 5. Environment.

Developing the Senses, One can hardly say that she is

It can be easily seen that if a pioneer in educational theorica, She goes out of her way to acknow-spontaneous dovolopment be the

centro of the system, early educa ledge her debt to Seguin. She does tion must concentrate a good deal not know how deeply indebted on the seneca, for the sense life is Seguin was to Pereira (1716-1780), the first to manifest itself in the in spite of Seguin's writings. Poreira's work was devoted to deaf child and, oven as the reasoning mutes, who were sadly neglected, power grows, the senses The Latin poet Lucretius had writ supply the material for thought, If the development is spontaneous, it must clearly be the outcome of individunt characteristica which cannot unfold themselves under the undue

ten of them:

"To instruct the deaf no art

could ever reach, No care improve them, and no

wisdom teach." St. Augustino, did not seem to be more optimistic. But Pedro Ponce de Leon, a Spanish monk in the monastery of Ona, wrote in 1578: "I have had for my pupils BORs of great lords and notable people who were deaf and dumb from birth. I have taught them to speak, read, write and reckon. They calculated, prayed aloud, served

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restraint either of the teacher or of the environment. -

The lecturer dwelt for some time on the unity of these ideas in prac tice, and continued:

I do not intend to say anything about the apparatus. No doubt the apparatus is the first thing that strikes the visitor to a Montessori school. Some of it is original, much of it is a woman's practical realisation of the theories of

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Mass, knew Greek, Latin, Italian. Seguin and Itard, or a modification BRUNSWICK||P & O. BRITISH-INDIA APCAR AND

and understood natural philosophy and astrology." It is probable that Pereira, who had lived in Spain, knew something of the work of this monk. Pereira's special contribu- tion was his discovery of the all important function of the senso of touch. Through Seguin Dr. Mon- tessori learnt the possibilities of this sense, and we know the part nasigned to It In the u80 of her apparatus by children. The sense education of the Savage of Aveyron by Itard and the principles involved deeply influenced Seguin who stu- died under Itard; and so they reached Dr. Montessori.

of Froebel's "gifts." Dr. Montes gori, herself, does stress the im portance of her apparatus, but we feel sure that future historians of educational development will do scribe Dr. Montessori, mot sa a classroom Santa Claus opening windows to hand in pedagogical toys, but as a woman with the rich instinct of a motherly heart under- standing child life and child needs, and with the sympathy born of this instinct devising practical ways and means to fill them.

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You, students of education, can easily put your finger on flaws in lier enunciated theory. Though We remember that she com- she was a doctor you may discover menced her work with feeble that some of her biological concepts minded children. Seguin had de-are deficient I believe that our voted his life to them. But she soon would-be medicos sometimes and convinced herself that "the child biology difficult, you might point who has not the force to develop, out her fallure to link adequately and the child who has not yet deve organism, function and environ the child. If in the course of your CHITRAL loped are in some ways alike." ment. You might aspecially call And so that the elementary methods attention to her neglect of the training you learn this lesson of RANCHI of instruction of both groups should enormous

the sympathy with the young whom *BANGALORE importance of be- similar. Here we have the nervous system in our reactions to you are preparing to instruct; and

"You if Madame Montessori be the oNALDERA starting point of her whole system. educational experiments.

When one comes to ask what would stress the fact that it is the he has taught it to you, you precisely the system is, the natural nervous system which links the bring to your work the richest of answer would be read her own book highly

and teaching qualifications, which specialised organs The Montessori Method. However, various organic elements and binds mere examination can test, and no of degrees can wo are Immediately confronted with them together in the mysterious distinction the strange anomaly that, when we physical unity of the human body. guarantee. begin to talk with others who have When you do begin to apply logic read It, their interpretation ap- to her written works you find that pears to be different from

there are many wants and many Turning to one ог two written inaccuracies, it is well that you, accounts we find in Monroe's future teachers, should do this. Encyclopedia of Education, that the But it is still more important that essentials aro 1. Sense Training; your scholastic efforts do not carry 2. Great Stress on Freedom. To you away from the world of facte Sir John Adams the system appeals oh, I do not mean the examination especially as sounding the knell of world of facts-for if the world claas-teaching; while Pitman linda of men were ruled by logic the 4 chief points: Greater freedom in Peace Conferences of Geneva would the child's choice of occupation; either have been unnecessary or opportunity of self-education: would have long ago attained their fuller training of the senses; more onds. Still less is the playful natural groupings of children. world of children ruled by logic. Yet another says: "the biological Hence I think that' when Dr. principle of liberty is for Dr. Mon- tessori the fundamental prin- ciple of education."

ours.

We think that Dr. Montessori herself is to blame-if blame be the word-for the uncertainty. If a

Montessori opened her class-room windows it was above all to let out the stern air of logic and to fill the room with a more congenial at- mosphere of spontaneity, created by a sympathetic understanding of

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