Tribute to Montessori
"| HERE is nothing a child cannot '" take-freely and spontaneously . . It is only when we-the adults-force him to be attentive that he became mentally fatigued, Believe in the child. Hear his plea, "Help me to do it myself." These words of Dr. Maria Montessori, spoken to an_ international gathering held in 1950 to mark her eightieth birthday, will be heard in Believe in the Child, a radio tribute to Dr. Montessori, to be broadcast in YA Women’s Sessions on Thursday, May 6the second anniversary of her death. Dr. Montessori’s is one of the great names in education. The first girl child in Italy to attend a public school, she decided after graduating from medical school that a teacher could do "--e than a doctor to help mentally deficient children. On that conclusion she built up her whole educational method, which she soon found would benefit normal children as well; and, though some of her ideas have been discarded, the DirectorGeneral of Unesco was able to say when she visited Unesco House in 1949 that every variant of the, new education draws its inspiration in some measure from her teaching.
Believe in the Child, which was produced by Unesco Radio, includes the recorded voice of Dr. Montessori and an appreciation of her method by Dr.
William D. Wall, of the Education Department of Unesco. "Her doctrine of belief in the child," he says, "is the sound core of her work."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 16
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241Tribute to Montessori New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 16
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