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On the Subject of Subjects Part I: "Cultural Subjects" in the Children's House

On the Subject of Subjects Part II: The Role of the Disciplines for Cosmic Education

A Montessori Community for Adolescents

Presented at the First Montessori Adolescent Colloquium, Cleveland, OH, 1996, and at the AMI/USA National Conference "Grace and Courtesy: A Human...

Interview with Camillo Grazzini, based on talks with David Kahn

Overview of articles and contributions by Camillo Grazzini in English

Thoughts on a Secondary School for All, Letter to Augusto Osimo (1920)

This letter appears to be the first document on adolescent education that has survived; it shows the origins of Montessori’s ideas on this area.

Montessori’s First Curriculum for Teachers of Secondary Schools (1934)

A report by Countess Lubienska on the preparations and curriculum of the XX International Montessori Course, Nice, 1934. We have chosen this document to...

Principles and Practice in Education (1936)

This lecture delivered at the Institute of Medical Psychology, London, 10 November 1936 calls for a plan of education which ‘strikes at the very roots of the...

La istituzione degli “Erdkinder” or The Curriculum for the “Erdkinder” School (mid 1930s)

Dated around the mid 1930s, and edited by Greg J. MacDonald, this document quietly describes ‘social orientation’ in terms of the great sense of calling...

The Physical and Psychological Development of the Adolescent

In the 34th lecture given at the 23rd International Course Amsterdam, 1938, Montessori uses the term ‘psychic confusion’ to describe the unrest of adolescence...