Montessori: the hand as the instrument of the mind
Maria Montessori trusted the child’s hand long before the pencil. But she called it the instrument of the mind, and that one word hides an old split between mind and body.
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Screens and the young child: what the evidence supports
The evidence on screens and young children supports limits, not panic. The strongest finding is not about minutes at all but about being answered.
Imitation: children learn by becoming others
A three-year-old copies her grandmother’s wrist across her forehead while rolling her first roti. What the evidence on imitation shows, where it is disputed, and why a teacher’s body is never neutral.