And when it comes to the performance of Montessori students, they tend to underperform. According to the book “The Montessori Controversy,” John Chattin-McNichols researched how their students tend to score lower on standardized tests of both creativity and intelligence. When children are learning ...
Our tendency to faint is controlled by the vagal system, specifically how sensitive we are to perceived danger. Some people are so anxious and oversensitive that their vagus nerves will cause them to faint at the smallest things, like seeing a spider, hearing bad news, or looking at blood. ...
The first week did a lot to assuage my fears. Things seemed to be going swimmingly. Then came the bad reports. I won’t go into the details of our week of discipline issues and struggles to get to the bottom of what appears to be an adjustment from Montessori, coupled with a bright,...
And in the process, of course, we wanted people to know everything, and we wanted to be truly democratic about the way we ran things. 所以这个过程就是寻找智慧。在这个过程中,我们当然想让员工了解每件事,我们想要在一切行动中...
Montessori’s values had always been about human respect and the rights of children and women, but the Fascists wanted to use her work and her fame. Things reached a breaking point when the Fascist tried to influence the schools’ educational content, and in 1934 Montessori and her son ...
- Maria Montessori 12. "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." - Oscar Wilde 13. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss 14. ...