Who opened schools named the Casi dei Bambini or Children's House?
a. Maria Montessori
b. John Pestalozzi
c. John Dewey
d. Horace Mann
Question 2...Questions that have multiple responses used to determine child's present level of understanding and potential future directions.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3...Reasons given by historians for many children having been treated with
indifference or hostility include high infant mortality rate, the view of pregnancy
as an often undesirable state, abject poverty, and which of the following?
a. Low infant death
b. Affluence
c. Inability of children to provide income
d. Adults disregarding the early years of life as a valuable time period
Question 4...Who is considered to be the father of the kindergarten and concluded that the
early years were the most critical?
a. John Comenius
b. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d. Friedrich Froebel
Question 5...Who wrote a novel about a fictitious child named Emile and believed in the
child's natural goodness and innocence?
a. Friedrich Froebel
b. John Comenius
c. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Question 6...What is Tools of the Mind?
a. A curriculum based on the work of John Dewey
b. A Vygotskian theoretical paradigm
c. Published writings by five educators that provide documents and learning
plans for teachers
d. B and C only
e. All of the above
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