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

CHAPTER XXI

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GENERAL REVIEW OF DISCIPLINE

Discipline better than in ordinary schools 346

First dawning of discipline comes through work 350

Orderly action is the true rest for muscles intended by nature for action 354

The exercise that develops life consists in the repetition, not in the mere grasp of the idea 358

Aim of repetition that the child shall refine his senses through the exercise of attention, of comparison, of judgment 360

Obedience is naturally sacrifice 363

Obedience develops will-power and the capacity to perform the act it becomes necessary to obey 367