Vineyard Montessori head of school, Deborah Jernegan, says they have received 76 applications for admission for the 2020-2021 school year. This was a big jump in applications from their usual 14. They had to close their waiting list this year, however, future changes will help them serve more students. ...
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Montessori Quick Bites
Victory and Peace
Victory and Peace
Preventing conflicts is the work of politics; establishing
peace is the work of education. We must convince the world of
the need for a universal, collective effort to build the foundation
for peace.
Love is not the cause but the effect of the normal development of the individual.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
Quotes from Peace and ...
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Reflections on Newtown
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the
child. Historically, the oppressed - slaves, the servant class and
finally the workers - were minority groups who sought their
redemption through social change, often in open battle between
the oppressed and their oppressors…
But the social problem of the child is not one of class, race ...
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Time enough for childhood
Little children perform slowly and deliberately many complicated actions which they love—dressing and undressing themselves, setting the table, eating, etc. In doing all these things they show extreme patience, and they carry on to a conclusion their laborious tasks, overcoming every difficulty which arises from an organism being still in the ...
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Freedom, Discipline and Responsibility
“ When the teachers were weary of my observations, they began to allow the children to do whatever they pleased. I saw children with their feet on the tables, or with their fingers in their noses, and no intervention was made to correct them. I saw others push their companions, and I saw dawn in the faces of these an expression of violence; ...
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