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Show CHILDREN IN SCHOOL MANY HOURS. Maria Montessorl has come to America to note the progress In the .Montessori system and the famous woman educator has expressed pleas ure over what has been achieved. The Montessorl system. Instead of allowing the pupils to get beyond the control of the teachers for half a day as is proposed in Ogden, retains the youngsters in school from J o'cIock in the morning until 5 o'clock in tho afternoon. Mann Montessori says. "Intellectual exercise is the most pleasant thing a child knows if he is In good health. The children ol the Caea dei Bambini would save lit tie objects that they had acquired by themsehes. They would preserve unharmed even the most trivial scrap o( paper, although free to tear It up so long as that scrap of paper helpea them to exercise their thoughts "But the most marvelous discovery-was discovery-was the physical improvement ol these little children. Now. we newr served food in the school. The lit tie ones, all of whom live in their own homes, have half an hour's re cess for luncheon, which they take at home Not a single child In the school was given medicine; there was J no change of diet, but In almost every rasp n nw vigor and health was I shown by blood auppi, weight, and (.stature They looked llkr tho chll ! dren of wcalrh parents living In the country , and presented a strong con tr.'st if) th.-ir brothers and sisters Al homo. "This renewed vigor was due. solely J to a complete satisfaction of psychic life. These children were In school from nine to five eleven months in the year. All this time they were continually busy. "This amazing discovery might have been foreseen had we stopped to think how our own physical heallh depends far more on huppiness and a peaceful conscience than upon anything any-thing material as bread!" |