Elementary

There is more to preparing for citizenship than learning civics. 2020 is an election year in the United States and an appropriate time to consider our concept of democratic citizenship.

The Reasoning Mind The key characteristic of the second plane child is the high level of independent thinking and the rapid growth of his powers to reason and go beyond

In chapter 2 titled “Metamorphoses” of her book Childhood to Adolescence, Dr. Montessori explores the elementary child’s “turning towards intellectual and moral” development: “The passage to the second level of education

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS As the newborn fixes upon the sounds of human speech, and exercises the physical mechanisms needed to articulate these sounds, the mind stores impressions of meaning. The simultaneous

“Education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.” For these reasons Dr.