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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 6

There was an interested audience at the meeting of the Workers Educational Association on Saturday night, when Mrs T. E. Taylor delivered an address on the Montessori system oi education. Mrs Taylor gave a ■briei outline of the rise of Miss Montesson s. system, and pointed out how her methods of carrying on the development of the mind and body a« a whole, fell hack on the fundamental principles of her great predecessors. She showed how the House of Childhood was not a school in the accepted sense, but a homo on a large scale accommodated to a child's requirements, With material scientifically arranged to lead to the child's mental - .development. In the Christchureh Free Kindergartens, said the speaker, they used a free combination of the Montessori and Froebel occupations, because they had not found anything in the Montessori system that would quite take the place of the expression work of Froebel. Using a great deal of tho more interesting apparatus of the Montessori system, Mrs Taylor showed how dimension was taught through the senses, tho child being blindfolded to test its sense oi touch. She also illustrated tho novel methods of teaching 6ize, weight, counting, sound, shades of colour and so on. At the conclusion of the address the apparatus was examined *by the audience, and a hearty vote ol thanks was acoorded to Mrs Taylor fot her lecture*