1. Montessori and Four Planes of Development
... -old. Montessori sought to prepare the adolescent for adult life both socially and economically, in a safe, protected environment. She proposed that we "abandon the schoolroom and open the gate of life," (Montessori, Education and Peace, "the Education of the Individual," p. 111, Clio, 1999) creating a "center for work and study" in the quiet countryside where the whole ... . Montessori wanted young people to be "producing, selling and working not in order to learn a trade, but because working means coming into contact with life, participating in the building of the supernature."(Montesso...
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