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Dorothy Canfield Fisher. A Montessori Mother
A Montessori Mother
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ABOUT PARENTS
CHAPTER II. A DAY IN A CASA DEI BAMBINI
CHAPTER III. MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN A CASA DEI BAMBINI
CHAPTER IV. SOMETHING ABOUT THE APPARATUS AND ABOUT THE THEORY UNDERLYING IT
CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTION OF THE REST OF THE APPARATUS AND THE METHOD FOR WRITING AND READING
CHAPTER VI. SOME GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT THE MONTESSORI APPARATUS IN THE AMERICAN HOME
CHAPTER VII. THE POSSIBILITY OF AMERICAN ADAPTATIONS OF, OR ADDITIONS TO, THE MONTESSORI APPARATUS
CHAPTER VIII. SOME REMARKS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SYSTEM
CHAPTER IX. APPLICATION OF THIS PHILOSOPHY TO AMERICAN HOME LIFE
CHAPTER X. SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NATURE OF “DISCIPLINE”
CHAPTER XI. MORE ABOUT DISCIPLINE, WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO OBEDIENCE
CHAPTER XII. DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF A UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF THE MONTESSORI IDEAS
CHAPTER XIII. IS THERE ANY REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MONTESSORI SYSTEM AND THE KINDERGARTEN?
CHAPTER XIV. MORAL TRAINING
CHAPTER XV. DR. MONTESSORI’S LIFE AND THE ORIGIN OF THE CASA DEI BAMBINI
CHAPTER XVI. SOME LAST REMARKS
INDEX
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In the midst of these reflections (my first glimmer of understanding of what it was all about), a lively march on the piano was struck up. Not a word was spoken by the teacher, indeed I had not yet heard her voice raised a single time to make a collective remark to the whole body of children, but at once, acting on the impulse which moves us all to run down the street towards the sound of a brass band, most of the children stopped their work and ran towards the open floor-space near the piano. Some of the older ones, of five, formed a single-file line, which was rapidly recruited by the monkey-like imitativeness of the little ones, into a long file. The music was martial, the older children held their heads high and stamped loudly as they marched about, keeping time very accurately to the strongly marked rhythm of the tune. The little tots did their baby best to copy their big brothers and sisters, some of them merely laughing and stamping up and down without any reference to the time, others evidently noticing a difference between their actions and those of the older ones, and trying to move their feet more regularly.
No one had suggested that they leave their work-tables to play in this way (indeed a few too absorbed to heed the call of the music still hung intently over their former occupations), no one suggested that they step in time to the music, no one corrected them when they did not. The music suddenly changed from a swinging marching air to a low, rhythmical croon. The older children instantly stopped stamping and began trotting noiselessly about on their tiptoes, imitated again as slavishly as possible by the admiring smaller ones. The uncertain control of their equilibrium by these littler ones, made them stagger about, as they practised this new exercise, like the little bacchantes, intoxicated with rhythm, which their glowing faces of delight seemed to proclaim them.
