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Montessori Learning with Amukta Mahapatra

Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy

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Practical Life Activities in a Monastery Classroom

In Montessori, we have also knives, which can cut, but are safe. And we show the children how to. Also in the exercise of practical life, what we have is the sets together. So when the set is there, the child kind of focuses on that. Somehow that happens. It calms them down. If they're in a rush or feeling agitated, many of the children choose exercise of practicalLife even in the elementary level. In the adolescent level, the same kind of work is seen as working with the land, growing things and doing economic projects. This approach of Montessori is working with the hands, goes right up to 18 years old. From birth

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