The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author

CHAPTER I

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A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE NEW PEDAGOGY IN ITS RELATION TO MODERN SCIENCE

Influence of Modern Science upon Pedagogy 1

Italy's part in the development of Scientific Pedagogy 4

Difference between scientific technique and the scientific spirit 7

Direction of the preparation should be toward the spirit rather than toward the mechanism 9

The master to study man in the awakening of his intellectual life 12

Attitude of the teacher in the light of another example 13

The school must permit the free natural manifestations of the child if in the school Scientific Pedagogy is to be born 15

Stationary desks and chairs proof that the principle of slavery still informs the school 16

Conquest of liberty, what the school needs 19

What may happen to the spirit 20

Prizes and punishments, the bench of the soul 21

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force 24