Chapter XXII: Conclusions and Impressions

The teacher has become the director of spontaneous work in
the "Children's Houses" 371

The problems of religious education should be solved by
positive pedagogy 372

Spiritual influence of the "Children's Houses" 376

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dr. Montessori giving a lesson in touching geometrical
insets _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Dr. Montessori in the garden of the school at Via Giusti 144

Children learning to button and lace. Ribbon and button frames 145

Children playing a game with tablets of coloured silk 186

Girl touching a letter and boy telling objects by weight 187

Pupils arranging colours in chromatic order 187

Didactic apparatus to teach differentiation of objects 190

Blocks by which children are taught thickness, length and size 191

Geometric insets to teach form 194

Geometric insets and cabinet 195

Cards used in teaching form and contour 196

Frames illustrating lacing; shoe buttoning; buttoning
of other garments; hooks and eyes 200

Tablets with silk, for educating the chromatic sense 201

Didactic apparatus for training the sense of touch,
and for teaching writing 282

Children touching letters and making words with cardboard
script 283

Montessori children eating dinner 348

School at Tarrytown, N. Y. 349