Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — SAYS TOYS WILL BE UNKNOWN [ARTICLE]

SAYS TOYS WILL BE UNKNOWN

Children Will Find Their Enjoyment in Useful Things Adapted to Their Mental Level. Dr. Maria Montessori of Rome, Internationally famed authoress and educator, foretold to 700 women the coming of the time when toys will be unknown and children will find enjoyment in useful things adapted to their mental level. She was talking nt a meeting arranged by the New Englund Montessori association. “Impatience on the part of mothers materially hinders the progress of children,” she SaW. “Let a child take his own time about performing duties B ajid= you will find they are dope-far better than the nrothers could do them. Imagine yourself dressing leisurely, but thoroughly, to be suddenly grabbed by a giant mold, literally thrust into your clothes and hustled into a,motorcar. “Sometimes we adults go part way through life as if in chaos until we find something that interests us. Then a phenomenon takes place. Why not give the child the same chance? We can be cOmrrared to an airplane. We first must have a motor, then we run over the. ground a short distance, and finally we .rise in flight. A child must be developed along those same lines. —Boston Post_