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Offline Geremia

Re: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2020, 05:06:19 PM »
Quote from: Stanley N on May 22, 2020, 12:26:44 PM
CGS in particular?
Montessori is an approach in which children learn by guided interaction with a physical environment  CGS, influenced by Montessori techniques, appears to also involve using objects, for example a child-sized altar and vestments to guide them to learn about liturgy.
Montessori doesn't have a claim on those "techniques". The fact that everything we know comes through our senses dates back to Aristotle.
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Offline Banezian

Re: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2020, 05:25:20 PM »
Montessori education is good for preschool and kindergarten. Then kids begin serious study. The best Catholic homeschool program( I think) is this one
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjSmuGpwcjpAhUBmHIEHdqLBOcQFjAAegQICxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fclassicalliberalarts.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw26vY71StXwcRrY41XQYqYo
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Offline Stanley N

Re: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2020, 01:11:50 PM »
Thanks for the replies. The situation was that some who do children's catechism in my church were thinking of adopting the CGS philosophy because it appears to align with things they already did. They were also considering getting CGS certified.

They asked for opinions. My immediate response was that we didn't need certification. If the catechists wanted, they (and some others with education backgrounds) could read the books from the CGS originator over the summer and use what was agreed was good.

To me, Montessori seems to take one good thing and run with it; if there is "bad" it's mainly in the possible exclusion of other good things. If Montessori has theosophic influence, how does that reveal itself?

Compare Waldorf/Steiner education, which also focuses on experiential education, but its strange philosophy is evident even in earliest education.
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Offline Nadir

Re: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2022, 04:44:23 PM »
See https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/the-montessori-met/

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The primary error in the method is that is denies that the child suffers from the effects of Original Sin and needs to be disciplined and pushed to work.

God bless,
Fr. MacDonald

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Offline Incredulous

Re: Catechesis of the Good Shepherd?
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2022, 05:59:54 PM »
Quote from: Nadir on December 20, 2022, 04:44:23 PM
See https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/the-montessori-met/

This must be traceable to Rousseau’s anti-Catholic naturalist education philosophy.

Waldorf/Steiner education has direct influence from the Theosophical Society, which promotes a pantheistic philosophical religious system.

You don’t want your children anywhere near that.

Rudolph Steiner was a protégé of the Russian occultist, Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society.

She is notorious for bringing the occult to America. As her biographer said, “.. opening the way from everything from Yoga to Vegetarianism, to karma and reincarnation.”
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