Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

Best piece of toddler advice compared to many a books in the field because of the critical analytical approach. There is also scientific and social evidence implemented for grounds to support the qualitative reasoning.

Very good

Given as present.

Staple for my Montessori Work!

I found the book very good and it helped me a lot. I found the service excellent. Came before the due date.

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A great insight for anyone interested in Montessori and her work. Standing has included many examples of how her methods can be applied in the classroom, and helps to make many of her points even clearer. A great read to further your understanding of Montessori.

A impressão é de péssima qualidade. Sem ilustrações e papel reciclado muito frágil e escuro. Impressão com falhas de tinta!!!!

A very interesting approach to learning, but kids also need to hear and share, joyful, emotional and fun reading from parents. If they get that , they will do fine in school.

I’m sending this book to one of my daughters. She’s the mother of a two year old son. This is a well written and informative book. It will help my daughter to learn more about Maria Montessori. I highly recommend it!

A hand book for a lifetime.

I had previously read another book about the Montessori method, and also the English translation of "The Montessori Method". But only this authorized biography by standing gives a good picture of how important, and how influential she was. Montessori(1870-1952)was an extremely attractive, intelligent, and complicated person. Although she claimed to be only interested in "the child", and not at all in politics, her writings are shot full of socialist and pacifist ideas. She believed her education methods,through "the child's self directed manual activities" would abolish such tendencies as selfishness, acquisitiveness and the desire for status. Montessori also claimed in was a great mistake for people to assume that her insistence on the child's "freedom" dis not equate with a lack of discipline. Quite to the contrary, she insisted the teacher's (or "directress's")responsibility was to "destroy evil" in the classroom. And what is "evil"? Of course, "evil" is anything contrary to Montessori's personal belief. But Maria Montessori also had some wonderful educational ideas. She believed in "epochs of sensitivity" during which opportunities for the acquisition of certain skills could be most advantageously instilled. She believed the best time to teach literacy was from age 3 1/2 to 4 1/2, and that writing led automatically to reading. She turned out to be right about this, and also said that "absolute musical pitch" could also easily be acquired at the same ages. No one has ever prooved this to be true, so I think I'll do so. My name is Bob and my email address is [email protected]