p2022 Reprint of the 1914 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. This is the book that Maria Montesorri wrote in response to requests from thousands of American parents and teachers. A short, illustrated guide to the use of the Montessori classroom materials, it shows how to set up a children's house-an environment for learning where children can be their own masters, free to learn at their own pace. ppFrames for lacing and buttoning, geometrical wooden inserts, sound cylinders, sandpapers letters, colored numerical rods these are familiar features of any Montesorri classroom, whether in the pioneering days or today. Dr. Montesorri explains how to use these materials with preschool children to stimulate their powers of observation, recognition, judgment, and classification. ppThese self-correcting learning tools are the original teaching machines for young children. Inheren