SECTION 2 QUESTION III ABSORBENT MIND (0-6 YEARS) A child gains knowledge from the environment through the absorbent mind. Dr Montessori considered nothing is more important for the man than his absorbent mind‚ which shapes the adult and adapts him to any kind of social order‚ climate or country. Absorbent mind is the stage or period whereby a child absorbs or soaks in information‚ impressions‚ and impressions effortlessly from the environment consciously and unconsciously. It is one of the
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objective of the mind was to outwit others. Stone understood human intelligence was in itself similar to a virus or parasite which would kill its host‚ humans‚ and move on. In the poem “The Mind” the speaker similar in perspective to Dr.Stone also questions human intelligences and it usefulness which correlates with the poem in the lines “With an infinite mind with no laws .We tend to reach above the stars. I should have known we would cause .The elimination of what we are.”(Rajaraman‚ “The Mind”)There are
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disturbed characters in Act 1 of Macbeth We are first presented with a disturbed mind in Act 1 Scene 3‚ where Macbeth’s first words echo the witches - “fair is foul and foul is fair”. If we look closely at this it tells us that things are not always what they seem which can really indicate a disturbed mind because somebody could be disturbed and we couldn’t know because we as people cannot look into somebody’s mind. Another example is when Banquo makes a note on Macbeth’s reaction to the three witches
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“B”: “According to a well-known axiom‚ “travel broadens the mind”. As international tourism tempts ever more of us to ever more distant destinations‚ do you think this axiom still holds true? “ According to Wikipedia‚ “In traditional logic‚ an axiom (...) is a proposition that is not proven nor demonstrated‚ but considered to be either self evident‚ or subject to necessary decision”. So‚ this logical statement “travel broadens the mind”‚ is supposedly a statement assumed to be true‚ presumably
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The term “Absorbent Mind” was developed during Dr. Montessori’s seven-year internment in India. During this time period Montessori was able to work with older children. This experience helped her to recognize the unique aspects of the 0-6 child’s absorbent mind. The absorbent mind is categorized into two levels. The first level is that of unconscious learning‚ the period from ages 0-3. The child at this stage is learning through absorption of the environment‚ as well as through their innate
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film “A Beautiful Mind‚” directed by Ron Howard is an excellent movie. The uplifting film is the biography of mathematician genius John Nash (Crowe)‚ who while at Princeton University he discovers a principle equation that changed economic theory. His tremendous career was diverted by his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia‚ which almost destroys his family and himself. The irony of his dilemma was that the drugs that kept his psychosis controlled also prevented his mind from thinking at
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Spotless Mind” is the story of a guy‚ Joel‚ who discovers that his long-time girlfriend‚ Clementine‚ has undergone a psychiatrist’s experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed‚ after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working right. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn’t remember their time together‚ Joel agrees to do the procedure also‚ to erase his memories of Clementine. The movie takes place mostly in Joel’s mind‚ which
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Travel Broadens the Mind With the economy booming‚ travel has made its way into ordinary families as a superior choice of entertainment. It is superior for not merely can it delight our heart but also it will certainly broaden our mind by the scene that appeal our eyes‚ by the people we meet during the journey. World is far from what we see on a screen‚ that’s why we take on a journey. You may stay your sight on the picture showing the Scandinavian fjord‚ but you will not feel its wild‚ until you
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about it‚ at least not yet in millions of years. Therefore‚ traveling is a wonderful way for a person to broaden his mind instead of staying at a same tiny corner of the giant earth. Traveling here doesn’t necessarily mean going to the ends of the world. It can be called traveling as long as we separate ourselves from the old place and visit a new one where our spirits and minds are enriched. Yet traveling brings us all the new and exciting experiences when we have to adapt to new environments
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Psychology Behind a Criminal Mind Usually‚ a person has clear motives for committing a crime. In 1866‚ though‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky examines a man with no clear motives for murder in his Russian crime novel‚ Crime and Punishment. He writes of a man‚ Raskolnikov‚ who overhears some people hypothetically talking of killing an old‚ misanthropic pawnbroker‚ and using her money for better uses than she does herself. Raskolnikov actually considers this thought; then he murders the woman but does not care
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