Maternity and Child Welfare Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...is exactly what we want. This is a sample Where the sun cannot go the doctor does. Fure food is useless without good teeth and a clean moai # Infection is an offspring of dirt, a relative of disease, -; channel of death. The New Children; Talks with Dr. Maria Montssori. By Sheila Radice. Hodder and Stoughton. p I6q. Price 4s. Mis. Radice was fortunate to be able to talk with r. Montessori in her own language, during the four sonths which Dr. Montessori spent in this country, rom September to December, Iqiq, in order to hold 2c of her international training courses. In the 00k to which Mrs. Radice has given the attractive i: le of " The Xew Children," she has recorded the npressions which she received not only in the reekly talks she had, with a view to a series of nicies in the Educational Supplement of the Times, rat at the demonstration schools, at Dr. Montessori's ectures to the students attending the course, and at tt public lectures and other functions. Doctrine must not be swallowed whole. The book is one of great interest to all who have-'t attracted to Dr. Montessori's educational ideas, md have come to see in the method of auto-education rhich she has propounded an educational technique Taught with hope and promise for the future. For nrs. Radice approached this subject con amore; she lad long been a student of Dr. Montessori's work, 'oth in books and in the application of the method 5 seen in practice. She could therefore tackle Dr. Montessori on numerous points in such a way as to enable her ideas to be brought into relation with urrent thought. It is to be hoped that her trenchant rav of stating the case will scotch for good and all iome of the misconceptions about Montessorian iberty which have been in vogue, and will prevent he ...