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Montessori: A Modern Approach

The Classic Introduction to Montessori for Parents and Teachers

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Montessori: A Modern Approach

Written by: Paula Polk Lillard
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Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone - educator, childcare professional, and especially parent - seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early childhood education relevant to today's world? And most important, especially for today's dual-career couples, Is a Montessori education right for my child?

Paula Polk Lillard writes both as a trained educator and as a concerned parent - she has many years as a public school teacher, but it was her enthusiasm for the education her own child experienced in a Montessori school that led her to become a leading voice in the Montessori movement in this country. Her book offers the clearest and most concise statement of the Montessori method of child development and education available today.

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Useless.

This book is impressive in its failure to provide one ounce of useful, practical advice. It is a self congratulatory heap of obfuscated nonsense cobbled together from Montessori’s better work. Enjoy such insights as “the will of the child leads to a luminous future!” And other flowery descriptions of the wisdom of the child’s mind. This book is much better suited to a philosopher who enjoys listening to others wax poetic about the nature of a child’s existence with little to no evidence sighted than a parent or care giver who hopes to learn anything of use. Also, the robot who reads to book does it no favours. I was unable to complete this book and chose to instead sit in silence as the mechanical cadence and repetitious word vomit was unbearable.

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