Montessori, Maria,  1870-1952 <br/><br/>
The discovery of the child / 
Maria Montessori ; translated by M. Joseph Costelloe. 
 - x, 339 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  18 cm 
<br/><br/> Original title: Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica.  Translation of La scoperta del bambino. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>On the application of science to school -- The history of methods -- The teaching methods employed in children's houses -- Nature in education -- The material for development -- The exercises -- Visual & auditory distinctions -- Generalizations on the training of the senses -- The teacher -- The technique of the lessons -- Observations on prejudices -- Elevation -- Written language -- The mechanism of writing -- Reading -- Speech -- Teaching how to count & an introduction to arithmetic -- Draeing & representative art -- Introduction to musci -- Religious education -- Discipline in a children's house -- Conclusions & impressions -- The triumphal chariot -- Grades & sequence in the presentation of the mind -- Appendix: inaugural address delivered on the opening of the second children's hospital in 1907. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0345336569 9780345336569 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Montessori method of education<br/>Education, Elementary
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>371.392