Cornelli-Johanna Spyri

Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels.The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all creatures. Her ultimate and innate loyalty to her Nation of Bees is acted out in the final heroic scenes. This story gives us the delightful sense of having seen a small segment of the world through a Bee's eyes.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Moral Principles in Education by John Dewey.In this book, Dewey elaborates the moral principles that play into the field of education. Starting from the role morality plays in the purpose of the school, Dewey asserts his points regarding the moral training that should be given by the school community, particularly from the methods of instruction, the social nature of the course of study, and the psychological aspect of moral education.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Why We Love Music by Carl Emil Seashore.Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and popular vein. He attempts to interpret and evaluate present tendencies of music to stimulate questioning various interests in the field. His aim was to tease out those elements in the musical situation which help to make music function in our lives and be appreciated.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Music Talks With Children by Thomas Tapper."A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be logically suggested by them, be actually used as the basis of simple Talks with children, music may become to them more than drill and study. They should know it as an art, full of beauty and of dignity; full of pure thought and abounding in joy. Music with these characteristics is the true music of the heart. Unless music gives true pleasure to the young it may be doubted if it is wisely studied. Our failure to present music to the young in a manner that interests and holds them is due not so much to the fact that music is too difficult for children, but because the children themselves are too difficult for us.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead.In The Concept of Nature , Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing 'philosophy of nature' are examined, with specific reference to contemporary (Einstein, with whose theory of relativity he has some complaints) and ancient (Plato, Aristotle) approaches.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Romance of Modern Photography by Charles R. Gibson.It is not the author's purpose in the present volume to give any instruction in the practice of photography. There are many works dealing with the practical side of the subject. His object is to tell the romantic story of the discovery of this wonderful art, and the steps by which its range has been extended until it can achieve results which only a few years ago would have been thought impossible. A glance at the list of chapters will show what a wide field photography now covers, and what service it renders to man, both in his everyday life and in his most subtle scientific researches.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use by Edith E. Wiggin.It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its appropriate divisions, are of no little value if we would have our children attain to "that finest of the fine arts, a beautiful behavior."Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Cornelli by Johanna Spyri.Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of his business trips, hoping that their influence will refine and improve his daughter. Instead, the ladies prove to have no real love for Cornelli, and she, being a sensitive soul, turns inward and becomes sullen and uncooperative. A boy who comes on a visit to Iller-Stream for his health befriends her, and this begins a chain of events that turn Cornelli's life right-side up again.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Human Nature And Conduct by Part 1, The Place of Habit in Conduct-John Dewey.John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science (with rules and predictive power) as Biology and Chemistry. This project encompasses Part 1 of 4 of his book Human Nature and Conduct. Dewey's uses the word "HABIT" as a specialized catch-all word to describe how a person and his/her objective environment interact. This interaction is the basis for moral judgement. Dewey writes: "All habits are demands for certain kinds of activity; and they constitute the self.” In other places he also asserts that "Habits are Will."Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III by John Locke.This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our minds and the things they are to represent. What does it mean to define a thing? What is an abstract idea? What is motion? What is essential to me as an individual? What would an Englishman born in Jamaica think about ice when he went to England for the first time? What is a concrete term? Locke tackles many such questions in this third book. Book IV is Of Knowledge and Probability.Featured on The Montessori Method.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.