The Montessori method of educating children
is guided by perhaps a half–dozen major principles of education. The first
affirms the biological programming of child development, the child's capacity
for self – realization, for "auto-education." The second calls for
"scientific pedagogy." A science of childhood based on observation.
The third demands a natural environment in which
self-development can be expressed and observed. Montessori believed that the
school could be made into such an environment, thus becoming a laboratory for
scientific pedagogy. This environment should be determined scientifically. In
order to expand, children, left at liberty to exercise their activities, ought
to find in their surroundings something organized in direct relation to the
children's internal organization. All of these principles imply the next, which
Montessori calls the " biological concept of liberty in pedagogy":
the child must be free to act spontaneously and to interact with the prepared
environment. The entire program is concerned with the individual child; the
spontaneity, the needs, the observation, the freedom are always those of the
individual. Finally, the modus operandi of the method is sensory training.
Questions
1. Which of the following is the best title
for the passage?
(A) Principles of the Montessori Method
(B) Modern Principles of Education
(C) Results of the Montessori Method
(D) Stages of Child Development
2. In line 6, the phrase "such an
environment" refers to which of the following kinds of environment?
(A) Biological, accompanied by specimens
(B) Scientific, accompanied by experiments
(C) Pedagogical, in which ideology prevails
(D) Natural, in which self-expression prevails
3. According to the passage, the Montessori
method focuses on
(A) the individual child
(B) pairs of children
(C) small groups of children
(D) large groups of children
4. It can be inferred from the passage that
the Montessori method was named after a
(A) school
(B) town
(C) person
(D) book
5. Which of the following would NOT be
advocated by the Montessori method?
(A) Tightly controlling children's group activities
(B) Carefully teaching children to listen and observe
(C) Permitting children to work at their own pace
(D) Allowing
children to speak out at will during classes
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