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Report RE: Small Settings EYFS
Original Post
RE: Small Settings EYFS - 13-11-07 17:03
by: Millie
Me again - found these quote by Owen (the founder of the nursery school sytem in the UK)
I have found the children have derived very little benefit from being rapidly instructed in reading and writing, particularly when no attention has been given on the part of the superintendent to form their dispositions and their habits (Owen, 1927, p.88)
Today we hold thge pupils in school, restricted by those instruments so degrading to body and the spirit - the desk and material prizes and punishmenbts. Our aim in all this is to reduce them to immobility and silence - to lead them where? Far too often toward no definate end. Often the education of children consists in pouring into their intelligence the intellectual content of school programmes. And often these programmes have been compiled in official department for education, and their use is imposed by law upon the teacher and the child. Ah! Before such dense and wilful disregard of the life which is growing within these children, we should hide our heads in shame and cover our guildty faces with our hands (Montessori, 1912, pages 26 to 27).