Montessori
[,mɔnti'sɔ:ri]
Definition
(noun.) Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-centered approach (1870-1952).
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Examples
- The fear of raw material is shown in laboratory, manual training shop, Froebelian kindergarten, and Montessori house of childhood. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As Montessori is building the school around the child, so politics would build all of social life around the human being. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Montessori has had the audacity to sacrifice the sacred bench to the interests of the pupil! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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