and technical education -
education is the armament of peace
"Without exception, everyone was born with creative ability. It is essential that everyone be given the opportunity to express themselves by creating
something useful and beautiful."
Dr. Thomas M. Shepherd ~ Founder ~ Chancellor ~ Montessori Teacher
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Hon. Dr. Thomas M. Shepherd, founder of the Tom Shepherd World Educational Foundation, brings to you free home-schooling, utilizing the Montessori philosophy of education.
The Montessori Method, based on giving children and adults the freedom to create, not destroy, was developed by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator (1870-1952), who established Montessori schools throughout the world. To read more about the Montessori Method, click here.
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Thomas M. Shepherd, Publisher
Other books by Kohn include:
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise,
and Other Bribes.
What Does it Mean to Be Well Educated ?
The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving BeyondTraditional Classroms
and Tougher Standards.
The Shepherd-Montessori Institute employs the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori, of Tom Blaise Shepherd, of Alfie Kohn, of Lajos Egri, of Albert Einstein,
of Frank Lloyd Wright and others.
Note: In order to create and publish professional writing, artwork or architectural designs and drawings, it is essential to have Microsoft Word 2000 or Word 2010 installed on your computer. For creating art or architectural drawings select
the formatting, pictures and drawing tools. You do not
necessarily need special architectural cad software.
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American Literature Library
featuring literary classics from America and
around the world, indexed by title and by author.
Introduction to Classical Literature
~ Enjoy the Free Classics Online ~
Charles Dickens The Literary Gothic Edgar Allen Poe
LARGE PRINT EDITIONS of DOVER CLASSICS
may be ordered direct from Dover Publishing Co.
Best-Loved Short Stories - LARGE PRINT
of Flaubert, Chekhov, Kiping, Joyce,
Fitzgrrald, Poe and others by DOVER.
Best Short Stories O. Henry - LARGE PRINT ~ by DOVER
James Joyce DUBLINERS - LARGE PRINT ~ by DOVER
FORD COUNTY - short stories by John Grisham
popular contemporary author
AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT
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Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT
also available - new and used - from Amazon.com/books
NOTE: The only tried and proven method for teaching yourself how
to write good fiction is to read the short stories of the masters,
then attempt to write a short story of your own, emulating the author's vocabulary and style. It's the time honored way ALL
great authors learned to write. Keep your story line simple,
weaving your story from your own imagination
and life experiences. Economize on words.
Bon Voyage!
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1869 - 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's foremost architects, did not have a degree in architecture. In fact he did not graduate from college.
Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. -- FLW
Wright on the Web:
A Virtual Look at the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
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~ The Great Courses ~
The Teaching Company offers high school and college level lectures on audio and video. View catalog on-line
Understanding the Brain & Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition. 60 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. Professor Jeanette Norden, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
& Professor Robert Sapolosky, Stanford University, Harvard
The Teaching Company
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
physicist, who developed
the theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955
Einstein, world renowned physicist, was a lonely and "dreamy" child, who had difficulty making friends and appeared to be autistic. He preferred playing alone with blocks or making houses of cards. He would softly repeat every sentence he uttered, and was not considered fluent in speech even at age nine.
Never given an IQ test, it was Einstein's opinion that most people don't bother to use the intelligence they possess, that they are persuaded to let others do their thinking for them.
More About Einstein
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Lajos Egri
(1888 - 1967)
Born in Hungary, Egri founded the Egri School of Writing in New York City in the 1930s.
He spent his life writing and directing plays in the United States and Europe,
as well as writing screenplays for the film industry.
From the lectures of writer-educator Lajos Egri:
Without exception everyone was born with creative ability.
It is essential that people be given the opportunity to express themselves.
If Balzac, De Maupassant, O. Henry, hadn't learned to write [fiction],
they might have become inveterate liars, instead of great writers.
If we can't create something useful or beautiful
. . . we shall certainly create something else: trouble, for instance.
Only by aiming for perfection in art can you succeed,
even if you never reach your goal.
You may claim that a real genius always finds a way to succeed, but that is not so.
Every individual who has succeeded, despite adversity,
has been given the chance to do so.
Noone is born to be great.
We love one certain subject more than any other.
Given all we need to further our knowledge, we are likely to make great strides,
forced to do something else, we become disgruntled, discouraged,
and end in failure.
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Artist Lynn Newcomb
~ Print Maker & Metal Sculptor ~
Lynn Newcomb's prints and scupltures have appeared in leading museums throughout America. She grew up on a suburban acreage in southwest Missouri.
Her own dad was a CPA. She excelled in both art and physics in high school.
She was a member-performer of the award-winning Mt. Holyoak
Synchronized Swim Team during her college days.
Lynn won a merit scholarship to Mt. Holyoak College in Massachusettes.
Following graduation from Mt. Holyoak, she was granted a scholarship for additional study at the Bostom Museum School of Art. She has since been awarded numerous grants (to include a Jackson Pollack Grant) for the undertaking of her artistic endeavors. Lynn later studied in Hungary.
Lynn Newcomb and Tom Shepherd (Shepherd-Montessori founder)
dated during their junior high and high school days, while they
were co-members and officers of the Young Peoples Service League,
of which both of their moms were sponsors.
View Lynn Newcomb's Vermont Studio & Exhibits Here
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Sweden First to Ban
Corporal Punishment
In 1979 Swedish Parliament voted to prohibit the
"right" of parents to chastise their children. Other Nordic nations, including Norway,Finland, Iceland and Greenland enacted similar legislation.
The result? Less crime!
"In a free democracy we use words to educate,
not blows. We talk to people. We do not yell at them,
nor do we humiliate, beat or imprison them.
If we can't convince our children with words
we will NEVER convince them with violence."
read more online
The Art of Dramatic Writing:
Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
by Lajos Egri
Hungarian-American
"the best book ever written on the creative process"
--Thomas M. Shepherd
order from
Amazon.com
The Art of Pencil Drawing
1985 Paperback Edition "Outstanding Text ISBN 0-8230-0276-4
By Ernest W. Watson
Watson-Guptil Publications - New York
order new or used at Amazon.com
Beginning Practical Home Study of Architecture
Architectural Drawing & Light Consgtruction, 3rd Edition
the essentials of freehand sketching are taught
by Edward J. Mueller
also
Housebuilding for Children:
step-by-step plans for houses children can build themselves
by Lester Walker - Professor of Architecture at City College of New York
and
Block Building for Children:
Making Buildings of the World with the Ultimate Construction Toy
These and other books by Les Walker can be purchased from Amazon.com
Recommended by The Shepherd-Montessori Institute
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American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Lester Walker - Preface by Charles Moore
over 300 pp. magnificently illustrated plans for the architect and builder
~ a chronilogical series of 'short stories' for the student of architecture ~
humanistic and environmental concerns from early colonial to post modern
available at Amazon.com/books
The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture by Rachel Carley
over 500 illustrations from indigenous Native American to contemporary 1990s
1997 paperback edition - 272 pp. - used copies from $7.58 at Amazon.com
The Adaptable House: Designing Homes for Change by Avi Friedman.
"a home should be constructed as a life cycle where changes are easily accommodated"
The author is a professor at McGill University School of Architecture - Montreal
Text is a powerful, eloquent resource packed with floor plans, drawings, photos, charts.
2002 hardback edition - 272 pp. - purchase new or used from
Amazon.com
The Big Book of Small House Designs
includes perspectives, site drawings, floor plans, elevations, section drawings, and exploded-views for 75 award-winning homes, each 1,250 square feet or less
~ energy-efficient features such as solar heating and plumbing ~
362 pp. - 2004 edition - order from Amazon.com
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Classical Music Archives
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Harper's Magazine The New Yorker
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Human Anatomy Online
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The New School ~ New York City
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at 66 West 12th Street
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Bela Bartok 1881 - 1945
Hungarian Composer-Pianist
Best known for his use of Hungarian folk music
to create a distinctive individual style. He considered the idea
of God as a bodiless, everlasting and omnipresent spirit, who has
decreed all that has happened in the past and similarly ordains the future,
to be " a muddled notion." He considered the trinity to be a "clumsy fable"
and "mumbo jumbo." not authored by Jesus, who was only a moralist.
Bela Bartok Memorial House, Budapest
A Biography of Bela Bartok Bartok's Music at Amazon
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Introduction to Existentialism
"Eistentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero,
without all the sanctions or support of religion or society -- Anita Brookner,
British novelist and art historian.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Life and Ideas
The Conscience of an Existentialist
by Tom Blaise Shepherd
The Great Idea Finder
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