The Montessori System of Child Culture, 1913: A Report (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Montessori System of Child Culture, 1913: A Report (Classic Reprint) written by Clara E. Craig and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Montessori System of Child Culture, 1913: A Report One of the functions of a state department of education is to gather and disseminate educational information. In truth, though other duties and wider responsibility have been committed to this divis ion of the people's government in school law and administration, state offices of education were established primarily to investigate and make known educational conditions, activities and results. Such service, as a necessary condition of public knowledge and educational improvement, includes not only regular surveys of a state's entire educational enterprise, but also special studies of successful practices and important movements in education, both within and without the state. Educational progress in a state, depending upon popular support and cooperation, as well as upon the professional knowledge and technical skill of teachers, is promoted by a constant enlight enment of the public mind on important educational movements and successful educational experience elsewhere. The Board of Education has long recognized the responsibility of the department as a depository of educational information and has sought a knowl edge and true evaluation of significant educational activities else where, especially those adaptable to our own aims, conditions and needs. For this reason the Board could hardly neglect a study of the remarkable work of Dr. Maria Montessori in Italy. The early approval of trained teachers and professional students showed clearly that the Montessori system of child culture deserves the consideration of all those who have charge of the school education of children. The real and widespread interest awakened in America and other countries and the astonishing attention accorded to popular expositions of the system were followed by hurried attempts to estab lish Montessori schools, sometimes without adequate knowledge of aims, methods and principles involved or full appreciation of their adaptability to our conditions and needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.