| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| | Preface | [v] |
| I. | Some Introductory Remarks About Parents | [ 1] |
| II. | A Day in a Casa dei Bambini | [ 7] |
| III. | More About What Happens in a Casa dei
Bambini | [ 29] |
| IV. | Something About the Apparatus and About
the Theory Underlying It | [ 48] |
| V. | Description of the Rest of the Apparatus and
the Method for Writing and Reading | [ 67] |
| VI. | Some General Remarks About the Montessori
Apparatus in the American Home | [ 91] |
| VII. | The Possibility of American Adaptations of,
or Additions to, the Montessori Apparatus | [ 105] |
| VIII. | Some Remarks on the Philosophy of the
System | [ 117] |
| IX. | Application of This Philosophy to American
Home Life | [ 127] |
| X. | Some Considerations on the Nature of “Discipline” | [ 141] |
| XI. | More About Discipline, with Special Regard to
Obedience | [ 153] |
| XII. | Difficulties in the Way of a Universal Adoption
of the Montessori Ideas | [ 165] |
| XIII. | Is There Any Real Difference Between the
Montessori System and the Kindergarten? | [ 171] |
| XIV. | Moral Training | [ 195] |
| XV. | Dr. Montessori’s Life and the Origin of the
Casa dei Bambini | [ 210] |
| XVI. | Some Last Remarks | [ 232] |
| | Index | [ 239] |
| Maria Montessori | [ Frontispiece] |
| The schoolroom in the convent of the Franciscan
nuns in the Via Giusti | page [8] |
| The meal hour | “ [22] |
| The morning clean-up | “ [26] |
| Waiter carrying soup | “ [26] |
| Exercises in practical life | “ [56] |
| Building “the Tower” | “ [56] |
| Buttoning-frames to develop co-ordinated movements
of the fingers and prepare the children for exercises
of practical life | “ [68] |
| Solid geometrical insets | “ [70] |
| The broad stair | “ [74] |
| The long stair | “ [74] |
| Insets which the child learns to place both by sight
and touch | “ [ 78] |
| Tracing sandpaper letters | “ [86] |
| Tracing geometrical design | “ [ 86] |
| Training the “stereognostic sense”—combining
motor and tactual images | “ [100] |
| Color boxes comprising spools of eight colors and
eight shades of each color | “ [116] |
| Materials for teaching rough and smooth | “ [138] |
| Counting boxes | “ [162] |
| Insets around which the child draws, and then fills
in the outline with colored crayons | “ [ 188] |
| Word building with cut-out alphabet | “ [ 224] |