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Interview with Maria Montessori

Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy

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Is Your Child Making a Mess of the House?

A lot of behavior problems are due to children not being able to master themselves. Try this policy with mischievous child, one who takes a great joy in leaving taps running for instance. The discipline that we are looking for is active. We do not believe that one is disciplined only when he is artificially made as silent as a mute and as motionless as a paralytic. Such a one is not disciplined but annihilated. Man achieves his independence by making efforts. To be able to do anything without any help from others, this is independence. If it exists, the child can progress rapidly. If it does not, his progress will be slow. With these ideas in mind, we can

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