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The syllable gu means shadows syllable ru, he who disperses them, Because of the power to disperse darkness the guru is thus named. Advayataraka Upanishad 14-18, verse 5 My guides... my roots: settling foundationSetting up the essential
meaning of
the present whole
work, as
shown on the
Web site and related books - Italian and English
ones -
the display
of a personal important standpoint should be
consolidated
by information evidencing the Author's preferences rising from not
mainstream
sources of knowledge.
In fact: to can choose a simplified way
through a
so wide field was
necessary to select -
and to omit - the presented items by
one indicative substantial
criterion: so
the prospective opted for Authors, Organizations, also situations is to
indicate what directly influenced my knowledge and points of
view. The
authors I indicate - the medicine doctors
Montessori and Pikler, the anthropologist Erikson, the teacher Loris
Malaguzzi ... -
are characterised by their predeliction for the simple, the PRACTICAL, choosing
as "Masters" the concrete facts.
From this solid base one can arrive at the initial, simple ORIGIN -
which in acknowledging can open and develop oneself towards
explanations of present but even prospects to future. On other words, in this page,
as in the corresponding one in Italian, the criteria on what to include
and what to omit do not indicate absolute values. Instead they indicate
preferences towards those authors who have in significant ways recorded
my own personal experiences
in sum up partaking my being onto formal membership of phenomenological
organization - O.P.O.
A basic criteria on which to
start is shared by my own involvment
seeing so these guides as an "us" sharing "our" authentic
basic knowldge: the preference towards LEARNING against TEACHING, to
ACCOMPANY rather than GUIDE, plural even discordant "a posteriori"
EXPERIENCES rather than firm, subjective "a priori"
IDEAS. A
second but even more particular criteria is the practice of continuous "bottom-up"
learning
rather than that from a height: the project of accepting whatever
evidence that can be validated even if in contrast to accredited
schools of thought or individual leaders of movements, even if
apparently "absurde".
Besides should
be ever pointed out how the
humankind has
an
INNER, genetic very large ground of uniqueness.
But the basic inner uniqueness goes together with the absolutely
general obliged uniform
basis
of every body's development: assumptions not
to be mistaken as a
mere
theoretic opinion. being instead a true
scientific concrete reality.
Therefore a foremost purpose is
to straight
emphasize its consequent basic reality: the "fourth
dimension" of human life, moving from childhood
and its obliged
passages of development
towards present and future eventual evolution(s) and their everlasting
presence into memory
- either conscious and meaningful, or "removed" into, often
damaging, "unconsciousness".
But time and its passages have to be considered not only regarding a merely simple "human life": also facts and their interpretation require ever new consideration; also concepts are forcefully dynamic and then every topic must unremittingly, precisely and timely be enabled by continual basic adds and revision. Then unfortunately it is not adequate to read them exclusively on static books: moreover for the relevance of this lively not theoretic field the related subjects have to be reached and considered often confronting the Web site, before to can eventually read on paper further new edition - they too never resulting totally up-dated. On the matter of fact to read a book is easier than reading long files on-line, but - as already happened for the Italian book from this site Bambini di ieri = adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi -> adulti di domani - after the book published some data have changed: so needing to ask for a second English book arising from these up-dated pages. Notwithstanding the "fourth dimension" of the time has not to prevail on the other three ones of space and its properties: at any time they are to be compared together and secured on a wholeness. Just the far-reaching SUBLIMATIONS: Visual Schemes and Scientific Explanation file/chapter is done to complete the above quoted parts, but it introduces also a more general learning: the interactions between corporeal occurrences and their inter-action - into and from - external world, what can define the background of the PSYCHOSOMATIC science. The whole file/chapter Anamnesis? a wy for healing... already introduces a groundwork of founding topics. But here we must seriously apologize since on the previous edition the display of sources of knowledge was lacking of a "mandatory" subject, of a binding other guide and teacher: the BODY itself together with the perspective on approaches towards its evolutionary further possibilities. This is now quoted also on International links on its totally renewed subchapter ancient-modern, Lacking of them this chapter on the first edition of the book From children of YESTERDAY to adults of TOMORROW, to correct this fault the avoided ROOT should be straightforwardly added here as a new subchapter describing another Guide's presentation with some personally known data regarding bodily health techniques and science issuing either from ancient Eastern or recent Western studies. A
compelling addendum has to implement this crucial topic: every person's
uniqueness.
Based on the uniqueness of each one's genoma, it
loads towards the uniqueness of each one's further personal "fourth
dimension"
of existence either as from "external" experience or even by Structural
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The whole of the site outlines
a long personal research and hard work advantaged by
telematics
help, which - better than printed papers - offers not only a broad
sharing
of easily available data, but a nimble exchange of checks,
discussions,
even debates to partake in and jointly deepen. Any way since these
studies
are
mostly interested in the fundamental (fundamental
in its
real meaning which
settles the foundations, and not only as a
turn
of phrase) and life-referring subject of personal HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT, also it would be wise to cut short with
descriptions of the individual partaking
his
environment. Furthermore one must never forget that this
environment is
not unique but scattered
in a paramount of pluralities
always all also under constant modification.
Therefore the wish
to widen more open horizons makes the site continually brought up
to date, with the aim to reach more differentiated information and
checks, to share and exchange with an increasingly wider and various
audience:
another
apology but also a call for the readers only of the book.
Not only to refer a bare lot of generic summarizing books - for example Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky by Carol Garhart Mooney - is the aim of this file / chapter. Titles and Authors are addressed to signify more than wide outlines: chosen as GUIDES at the basis of very scientific ROOTS of these studies, chosen as main GUIDES to teach how raising not only authentic infants - competent, confident, curious, attentive, exploring, cooperative, secure, peaceful, focused, self-initiating, resourceful, involved, cheerful, aware, interested and inner-directed (see below: RIE), but on the fourth dimension prospective towards adults of tomorrow also to prepare authentic, self-assured existences for the whole life. (In the mirroring Italian file - and book chapter - ... Basi teoriche... Guide... Organizzazioni... one can find more personal information; other data are on the pages Childhood: times of mutability, Domestic chores: Ergonomy and psychology of a REAL work and on the file/chapter Consciousness and memory - nevertheless all updated after book published). |
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no personal teacher(s);
that I do
not follow any school
or circle
or train.
Any way as guides to be
reported I have chosen those,
whose indirect
teachings were (and still are) my main cultural
basis,
mostly those whose work gave rise to till present and active Organizations: with
and for
some of them I personally
worked. But one can learn and take advantage also from doubts and from different methods if not taking part on controversies: or rather, to better open and lighten knowledge and then forthcoming views and related plans, it is furthermore to consider the opposite side of thinking and acting: then it should not be so strange to find in this file/chapter also members of the contrary side. If this file/chapter - as roots - anyhow emphasizes each Authors' points of view regarding how every person has till beginning - or better has to be allowed to have - his/her times, possibilities, skills, susceptibilities, ways to recover and resilience to undergo; but also considers - as learning "roots" - the necessity to well know their antithesis on what stated by authors as Delgado, behaviorists, also cognitivists etc. |
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me to do it by myself!
In the special environment prepared ... in our schools, the children themselves found a sentence that expresses the inner need: Help me to do it by myself! Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood |
Announcement of competition for Award of the International Montessori Prize
EDUCATION AND PEACEIn the decision dated March 11, 1996 the Management Council of the National Montessori Foundation, a Moral Entity under Royal Decree of 8.8.1924, announced the international prize Education and Peace, organized and promoted by the Management Council of the National Montessori Foundation and for which the patronage of the following will be requested: the President of the Republic, the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department of Social Affairs. The aim of the prize is to develop and deeply root in the individual the culture of solidarity between peoples, as a basic element for the creation of peace in the world. The Prize will be awarded on a two-yearly basis, and its aim is to identify physical persons, Entities, companies, associations and bodies in general that have rendered themselves particularly worthy of this recognition, by concrete action towards the spread and development of the idea of a peace-making individual, building up a new model for mental development that forsakes the concepts of dishonesty and oppression in favor of solidarity and brotherhood, to give equal growth of all populations in their diversity. The Jury awarding the Prize is presided over by the President and vice-president of the National Montessori Foundation, Dr. Pietro De Santis and Prof. Augusto Scocchera, respectively. The names of the remaining members of the Jury will be made known at the time the prize is awarded. The names of candidates must be received no later than September 15 2004, and must be addressed to the Secretary for the award, c/o:
Opera Nazionale Montessori Via di San Gallicano, 7 00153 Rome
Internet address: www.operanazionalemontessori.it/ e-mail: info@montessori.it
complete with documentation and motivation. The Jury will decide the winner from among the names of all candidates received. The International Montessori Prize Education and Peace will have will have a value of Euro 5.165,00.
The winner of the prize will be invited to give a public illustration of his or her activities in the specific sector during the event to be held for public presentation of the award, event that is scheduled to take place in mid-December of this year.
The prize-giving will take place on November 18 in Chiaravalle - the city where the great Italian educator was born - during an Event of considerable importance: International Conference on Maria Montessori and the 21st Century jointly organized by Opera Nazionale Montessori with the municipal authorities of Chiaravalle. The decision of the Jury and the indications of the Organising Committee are final. Participation by competitors in the award indicates in itself acceptance of the rules set down in these regulations. The Jury for the Award will be considered competent to decide on any other controversy that may arise.
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Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) In order to foster quality care RIE encourages:
The RIE approach, based on Respect, helps raise authentic infants who are: competent, confident, curious, attentive, exploring, cooperative, secure, peaceful, focused, self-initiating, resourceful, involved, cheerful, aware, interested and inner-directed. |
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compelling note to be put forward: Loathsome errors unfortunately are often established on - really misleading - bibliographies and references rather "respected" as significant, and even authoritative. . Then, a lot of such BAD references endorses together two very different even antithetic Authors: Erik Erikson must absolutely NOT be confused with Milton H. Erickson - to repeat "Erik" not "Milton", Erikson without "c" not Erickson with "ck". |
Erik
EriksonHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity (INTEGRITY has moral and religious connotations - peace, health, wholeness, holiness) enough not to fear death. [Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society, Second Edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963), p. 269.]
If the cycle, in many ways, turns back on its own beginnings, so that the very old become again like children, the question is whether the return is to a child-like-ness seasoned with wisdom or to a finite childishness. [Erik Erikson, Insight and Responsibility (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964), p. 133.]
Whosoever says he has religion must derive a faith from it which is transmitted to infants in the form of basic trust; whosoever claims that he does not need religion must derive such basic faith from elsewhere. [Erik H.Erikson, Growth and Crises of the Healthy Personality, Identity and the Life Cycle: Selected Papers (Psychological Issues), Vol 1, no 1, (New York: International University Press, 1959), p. 64 ff.]
On Old Age: A Conversation with Joan Erikson at 90 38', color, VHS 1995 A quick review of Joan and Eric Erikson's work and development of the Eight Stages of the Life Cycle, lays the foundation for an enlightening interview with Joan Erikson, aged 90. When the Erikson's created their stages of personality development in the 1950's, they decided the Eighth Stage, Integrity vs. Despair, would result in a feeling of wisdom. Having reached the age of 90, Joan feels compelled to rethink the Eighth Stage, saying she doesn't feel wise.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BRITANNICA: Erikson
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Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson describes the physical, emotional and psychological stages of development and relates specific issues, or developmental work or tasks, to each stage.
For example, if an infant's physical and emotional needs are met sufficiently, the infant completes his/her task - developing the ability to trust others. However, a person who is stymied in an attempt at task mastery may go on to the next state but carries with him or her the remnants of the unfinished task. For instance, if a toddler is not allowed to learn by doing, the toddler develops a sense of doubt in his or her abilities, which may complicate later attempts at independence. Similarly, a preschooler who is made to feel that the activities he or she initiates are bad may develop a sense of guilt that inhibits the person later in life.
ERIKSON'S DEVELOPMENT STAGES
Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Human Psychosocial Development And the New Environments Associated with Each Stage quoted from Cortland SUMMARY CHARTS
References & Other Links -- More information on the father of psychosocial development
| Stadi | Age | Basic Conflicts | Important
events |
Summary |
| 1. Infant |
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Trust <-->
Mistrust
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breast (or bottle)-feeding |
Needs
maximum comfort with minimal uncertainty to trust himself/herself, others, and the environment |
| 2. Toddler | From 18 months till 3 years |
Autonomy <--> Shame and Doubt |
excretory control |
Works to master physical environment while maintaining self-esteem |
| 3. Preschooler |
From
3 to 6 years |
I Initiative <--> Guilt |
Independence |
Begins
to
initiate, not imitate,
activities; develops conscience and sexual identity |
| 4. School-Age Child |
From 6 till 12 years |
Industry <--> Inferiority |
school (or "work") |
Tries to develop a sense of self-worth by refining skills |
| 5. Adolescent | From 12 till 18 years |
Identity <--> Role Confusion. |
relationships among peers. |
Tries integrating many roles (child, sibling, student, athlete, worker) into a self-image under role model and peer pressure. |
| 6. Young Adult | From 19 till 40 year |
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Learns to make personal commitment to another as spouse, parent or partner. |
| 7. Middle-Age Adult | From 40 till 65 year |
Generativity <--> Stagnation |
next generations. |
Seeks satisfaction through productivity in career, family, and civic interests. |
| 8. Older Adult | From 65 till death. |
Integrity <--> Despair. |
review of the whole life . |
Reviews life accomplishments, deals with loss and preparation for death |
| 9. Senility |
final years |
the
source of integrity is tact,
or decrepitude declines to infirmity |
loss
of skills and disadvantage: avail or lament to need caregivers |
The
END: easy, peaceful passage or painful longlasting withdrawal |

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child is made of one hundred. The child has a hundred languages a hundred hands a hundred thoughts a hundred ways of thinking of playing, of speaking. A hundred always a hundred ways of listening of marveling of loving a hundred joys for singing and understanding a hundred worlds to discover a hundred worlds to invent a hundred worlds to dream. The child has a hundred languages (and a hundred hundred hundred more) but they steal ninety-nine. The school and the culture separate the head from the body. |
They tell the child:
to think without hands to do without head to listen and not to speak to understand without joy to love and to marvel only at Easter and at Christmas. They tell the child: to discover the world already there and of the hundred they steal ninety-nine. They tell the child: that work and play reality and fantasy science and imagination sky and earth reason and dream are things that do not belong together. And thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there. The child says: No way. The hundred is there... (translated by Lella Gandini)
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1)
Our task,
regarding creativity, is to help
children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can
do more.
(Loris Malaguzzi (20th century), Italian
early education specialist. Quoted in The Hundred Languages of Children, ch. 3, by Carolyn Edwards (1993). Structural Genome Variation - We are pleased to announce the publication of a supplement devoted to structural variation in the human genome. This special issue contains comprehensive overviews of each aspect of this burgeoning area in the study of human genetic variation as well as standards and guidelines for future research. July Vol. 39, Issue 7s
Anthropologyof
the individual Experimental
and Theoretical ContributionsIntegronics
- this is a
name proposed in 1977 for a new theoretical field which explains our
experimental
results, and studies the general laws of the coexistence of the three fundamental
forms:
the substance,
the
field and the
aura.
... there
is nothing
hidden that will be not be disclosed , und nothing concealed that will
not be known or brought out into the open (Luke Gospel 8, 17)





Massaggio del piede tradizionale
cinese

Foundamentals of the Pilates
method 
Something connecting
together deep
learning and amusement. Something being like a novel
for
children but
also a
"greedy"
suggestion
for bibliophiles never outmoded - even from 1880. An old French essay giving
an exciting illustration for everyone who loves basics of
authentic scientific medicine and never dated science research methods:
![]() FORGOTTEN
PLAYS:
Italian "Academy" presenting a site pointing on more than 180 worldwide "traditional games" and on "old and poor toys" to be also re-built up as well by children themselves. The Olympic
Torch rowing on Po river:Rowing and Olympic Winter games Neve e Gliz ![]() Olimpic Winter games 2006 ![]() |
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6) Direct Experience: children the "foremost teachers"![]()
As the matter of fact
here I have to specify
that my knowledge of Smallest
babies'
problems,
and birth experiences comes not only from readings or from Congressual
Relations
and Communications:
but most of it came directly FROM
SMALLEST BABIES/FROM NEWBORNS themselves, who were
(and are) MY FOREMOST
GUIDES.
My worthwhile teachers
were really them: the little children.
But this feeling-skill doesn't pertain only to women, moreover if "mothers": the below testimony comes from a young man watching a friend's littlest baby:
7) Animals as teachers: ethologyTo support this wording I
must highlight
and affirm how much I promoted my education from teachings given also
by ANIMALS,
how much I amended
many
wrong
concepts learnt from books: how much I received a solid awareness from
observation, not from experimental Ethology
since by
direct, rigorous, scientific observation only of
"normal" lives and spontaneous behaviors.
![]() "Mr. Willy", an old stray dog well-mannered and dignified, who expressly chose where to settle his last - rather long - years of life. Not as a reckless "beast" on the contrary with decorum as an old gentleman, he was every time showing undoubtedly his feelings, his preferences and his best ways to amuse. And last but not least he gained a large well-liked popular favour. Dory when old and - only - stubborn and when young: bold and daredevil. ![]() ![]() Two smiling creatures: Squitty in wilderness and Carmine: the - real not delusional! - "beast" haunting a poor old woman in an Old Age Hospital ![]() ![]() 7a) Books and articlesGuiding knowledge: Konrad Lorenz, definitely the Father of Ethology a veritable fountains of good writing and common sense, though sometimes he goes overboard in his enthusiasm.![]() ![]() King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways Man mets a dog But his more teaching and enlightening book is Behind The Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge Any way a serious study does not only be referred to recent times: it is worthy to complete them with former observation and researches. ![]() From an old "master" Jean-Henri
Fabre - born 1823 dead
1915 - who
began his
career as a teacher at Carpentras. His preference was for lessons in natural
history in
wild scrubland.
Beauty entranced him so much that he decided to study its flora and
fauna. His very free teaching methods displeased some people. He
resigned
then, and settled in Orange. He remained there with his whole family
for almost ten years, and it was there that he wrote the very first
series of the Souvenirs Entomologiques.
Great French entomologist's charming essays on insect life combine scientific rigor with the style of a literary classic.
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9b) Bruno BettelheimHere it should be noticed this
controversial unlucky "Master" -
Bruno Bettelheim - to be put on the "doubtful data" and not
near the main "roots" as Montessori, Pikler, Erikson. To outline
his position and his - notwithstanding good - teaching it is more easy
to move among titles of his works compared with quotations
from his fierce - perhaps till murder - enemies.
(An excerpt of his more significant and shared writings) The
Informed Heart Penguin
Books Ltd The
Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age
Surviving and Other Essays Random House Inc (P) The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of Self La Fortaleza Vacia Ediciones Paidos Iberica Love Is Not Enough: The Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Children A Home for the Heart Truants from Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children The Free Press Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory Freud and Man's Soul Pimlico Freud's Vienna & Other Essays The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Psychoanalysis de Los Cuentos de Hadas A Good Enough Parent: Book on Child Rearing Dialogues With Mothers Symbolic wounds; Puberty rites and the envious male Moreover just his own ingenuous, sharp character gave rise to offer perfect occasion to start his ruin: During
his
encounter with Bettelheim, Pollak
heard his father dismissed as a crude schlemiel, his mother vilified
"with
astonishing anger," described as the cause of all his brother’s
problems
and scorned as a "Jewish mother.". He endured Bettelheim’s
categorical
insistence that Stephen had committed suicide despite Pollak’s
assertion
that he had been present and knew the death to have been an accident.
He
was stunned by the ferocity
of Bettelheim's anger and antagonism
and understood for the first time why his mother had complained that Bettelheim
hated parents. He had always thought his mother’s
complaints
hyperbolic;
now he saw that she had understated Bettelheim’s hostility.
In the Case of Bruno Bettelheim Molly Finn Copyright (c) 1997 The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim. By Richard Pollak. Simon & Schuster. Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy. By Nina Sutton. Basic Books. Not for according any value to
his enemies,
besides
for objectivity: in effect the book shown below has to be
considered
with wariness. At the matter of fact Bruno Bettelheim's
enthusiastic naivety -
based
on too much one sided experience and simplified believing, too often
one
side directed against family's deceitfulness - focused some times
opinions
and writings in wrong directions, towards wrong previsions, fore
running
very wrong results, as in the analysis depicted in these writings: The
Children of the Dream: How
Intimate is the Link between
the
Nature of a society and how its children are raised?... (more)
SIPs: kibbutz child
rearing,
kibbutz education, kibbutz educators,
kibbutz
reality, kibbutz rearing
Doesn't be such a similar Utopian outlook, doesn't give an alike prospect of famed political-fictional books as Brave New World and Animal Farm? Such a dreamt childhood doesn't be conflicting with the true basic aim - look below - of the fault-finding depiction of a "dystopian" brave new world? ![]() ![]() |
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Brave
new world? Dystopia?| Comments,
criticism
or suggestions? Talking on regard of such matters, an interlocutor gave us a good opportunity to undermine a possible operational - and then seriously misleading - misunderstanding. On reading emotively the texts on the files/chapters Imbroglio èil contrario di sviluppo, Delgado & Skinner, Totem and Taboo revisited: awful and fertile rise of new superstitions etc. he took - wrongly - to mean that a precise evil will and purposes are effectively acting to damage the normal children's development and rearing. Healthy
children will not fear life
if their elders have integrity said
Erikson, but UNFORTUNATELY - I
repeat:
unfortunately - the widespread
share of faulty ways to rear children doesn't usually
pertain to
a
deliberate
active program: unfortunately since an open enemy could be fought on a
parallel, adverse open
"battle-field". The worldwide parental behavior mirrors instead a
NORMAL Gauss's curve: at the extremes are - here - the "very good"
ones with their good Masters and -
there - the wicked
ones triggered by evil
Masters - as Delgado
and his cronies. But instead actually in the large middle of the
curve there is a bulk of passive lay-people: selfish, idle, superstitious, adults not really grown, bad lived infancies, lacking or
removing founding experiences: to summarize: lacking of every
bit
of INTEGRITY and
then castrated
of parental
instinct. (For direct
data regarding Delgado in person look at the video Estimulacion
electrica cerebral en toros (J. Delgado 1964)
and read the interview quoted as "guest file/chapter": Psychocivilization
and its discontents)
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