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My object in this book has been to offer to the readers and friends of Emerson some further illustrations, some details of his outward and inward history that may fill out and define more closely the image of him they already have, rather than to attempt a picture which should make him known to strangers, or set him forth in due relation to his surroundings or the world at large. The position of literary executor to which he appointed me, and the desire of his family that I would write a memoir of him, have given me access to his unpublished writings (including many letters confided to me by some of his most valued correspondents, to whom I render hearty thanks), and to sources of information in the memories of persons who knew him in his early years and in his home. My aim has been to use these opportunities to furnish materials for an estimate of him, without undertaking any estimate or interposing any comments beyond what seemed necessary for the better understanding of the facts presented.
In 1907, Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori introduced a revolutionary method for teaching young children of Rome’s working class. Today, there are thousands of Montessori schools throughout the world. This book, one of the first to include original photographs of the first Montessori schools in Germany, Austria and America, explores the main aspects of her theory of education, focusing primarily on the learning materials that are so critical to carrying out Montessori’s philosophy.
Tratado filosófico sobre la bondad natural del hombre, "Emilio, o De la educación" sigue siendo considerado todavía hoy un texto capital por la pedagogía moderna. En él, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) aborda un sistema educativo basado en la naturaleza y en la experiencia, y no en prejuicios, caminos preconcebidos y rutinas, creando asimismo en Emilio un alumno de laboratorio sobre el que reflexiona, situándolo y situándose en medio de la sociedad y de unas circunstancias sociales concretas. (*CR*)Traducción y prólogo de Mauro Armiño(*CR*)
This radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers' bestseller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Dumbing Us Down and to keep this classic current, we are renewing the cover art, adding new material about John and the impact of the book, and a new Foreword.
The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars of the early Quattrocento. The movement argued for the usefulness of classical literature as an instrument for training young men and women, not only in the arts of language and eloquence, but also in civic virtue and practical wisdom. This volume contains four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists' efforts to reform medieval education. The four texts are Pier Paolo Vergerio, "The Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth"; Leonardo Bruni, "The Study of Literature"; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), "The Education of Boys"; and Battista Guarino, "A Program of Teaching and Learning". The Vergerio and Guarino texts appear in English for the first time.
