Picture: Tavolette bariche

Girl judging the weight of the baric sense tablets, Children's House, Berlin-Lankwitz 1919-22. Postcard published by the DMG (German Montessori Society), around 1927, with the inscription: "If a child has worked - even for a long time - at an exercise he has chosen freely we find that he is happy and relaxed afterwards, not exhausted." Photograph: Clara Grunwald - T. Müller, R. Schneider, Lehrmaterialien 1913-1935. Möbel und Architektur. Techning Meterials 1913-1935. Furniture and Architecture, München, Prestel Verlag, 2002, p.94

Category: Montessori schools