TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montessori,Maria
TI  - The discovery of the child
SN  - 0345336569
U1  - 371.392 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Montessori method of education
KW  - Education, Elementary
N1  - Original title: Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica; Translation of La scoperta del bambino; Includes bibliographical references; 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
ER  -