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The Montessori Method Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in "The Children's Houses"
The Montessori Method by Maria Montessori (1870-1952). Translated by Anne Everett George (1882-). New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912.

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DR. MONTESSORI GIVING A LESSON IN TOUCHING GEOMETRICAL INSETS

[Title Page]
THE
MONTESSORI METHOD
SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY AS APPLIED TO CHILD
EDUCATION IN "THE CHILDREN'S HOUSES"
WITH ADDITIONS AND REVISIONS
BY THE AUTHOR
BY
MARIA MONTESSORI
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY
ANNE E. GEORGE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
PROFESSOR HENRY W. HOLMES
OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
SECOND EDITION
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
MCMXII

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Copyright, 1912, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
FASC April, 1912

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I place at the beginning of this volume, now appearing in the United States, her fatherland, the dear name of
ALICE HALLGARTEN of New York, who by her marriage to Baron Leopold Franchetti became by choice our compatriot.
Ever a firm believer in the principles underlying the Case dei Bambini, she, with her husband, forwarded the publication of this book in Italy, and, throughout the last years of her short life, greatly desired the English translation which should introduce to the land of her birth the work so near her heart.
To her memory I dedicate this book, whose pages, like an ever-living flower, perpetuate the recollection of her beneficence.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made to Mrs. Guy Barring, of London, for the loan of her manuscript translation of "Pedagogia Scientifica"; to Mrs. John R. Fisher (Dorothy Canfield) for translating a large part of the new work written by Dr. Montessori for the American Edition; and to The House of Childhood, Inc., New York, for use of the illustrations of the didactic apparatus. Dr. Montessori's patent rights in the apparatus are controlled, for

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