Montessori mother - Kamelini Montessori

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PREFACE
and futile theory, it must be, in its broad outlines at
least, understood and practised by just such people
as I am. We must all collaborate. And here is the
place to say that I consider this book a very tentative
performance; and that I will be very grateful for
suggestions from any of my readers which will help
to make a second edition more useful and complete.
This volume of impressions, therefore, lays no
claim to erudition. It is not written by a biologist
for other biologists, by a philosopher for an audi-
ence of college professors, or by a professional peda-
gogue to enlighten school-superintendents. An ordi-
nary American parent, desiring
above all else the best
possible chance for her children, addresses this mes-
sage to the innumerable legion of her companions in
that desire.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Miss M. I.
Batchelder and Miss Mary G. Gillmore, both of
the Horace Mann School, for helpful suggestions;
to Miss Anne E. George, who also read the manu-
M-ript; and to the House of Childhood, Inc., 200
Fifth Avenue, New York, for the use of illustrations.
Dr. Montessori's patent rights in the didactic apparatus
are controlled, for the United States and Can-
ada, by the House of Childhood, Inc., Carl R. Byoir,
President