This book offers the reader a selection of essential lectures and articles written during the last 25 years of Montessori’s life; they show the maturity of her ideas on human development, with an acute awareness of society’s shortcomings that thwart the human potential. The articles discuss the implications of her discoveries for moral and social life; her evolved understanding of the four stages of development from birth through early adulthood. And through four lectures delivered at the 8th International Congress in San Remo, Italy, 1949, Montessori bring us her own brilliant summary of a life-time of work.
Montessori Pierson
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 – The Two Natures of the Child
Chapter 2 – The meaning of Adaptation
Chapter 3 – Moral and Social Education
Chapter 4 – The Four Planes of Education
Chapter 5 – Reconstruction in Education
Chapter 6 – The Forgotten Citizen
Chapter 7 – The Permanent Relevance of Maria Montessori`s Plea
Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Publicity to be given to the Declaration of the rights of the Child
The Aims of the Social Party of the Child
A Step Forward towards the Future: The Social party of the Child
Chapter 8 –The San Remo Lectures, 1949
Lecture 1: The Creative Capacity of Early Childhood
Lecture 2: Human Solidarity in Time and Space
Lecture 3: The Absorbent Mind
Lecture 4: World Unity through the Child
Chapter 9 – Peace and Education
