Dave Ayer

Request at Montessori Method

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Montessori

You seem to have found your way around the place very well. (Must be that "indepedent, self-reliant" Montessori Way). Congrats on the boldness of the changes you have made. I have not yet fully gone over the changes but as far as the "How-to-do" request on my TalkPage you seem to have figured it out. Buster Seven Talk 14:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

• Dave...See my talk page. Editor:PamD has the answer. Buster Seven Talk 15:15, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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Maria Montessori

Hi Dave, great work at Maria Montessori! I have a question about your expansion at the talk page. Comments about the content of articles are normally discussed at article's talk pages, not user talk pages. To be notified of changes to the article and the talk page when they happen, add the Maria Montessori article to your watchlist and check it every so often. Graham87 15:28, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Graham87: Thanks! I'll pick it up at the talk page. Dave Ayer (talk) 19:15, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

I've replied there. Graham87 02:05, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: < span > in article titles

Hi Dave, Wikipedia has just had its software upgraded to MediaWiki 1.19, so you might see some strange things happening. Try to bypass your cache and see if that fixes the problem; if not, ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Graham87 14:54, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

BTW, to turn off the interpretation of markup, use the "nowiki" tag. For example, the text "bold text" surrounded by nowiki tags will be outputted as "'''bold text'''". Graham87 14:57, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

StumbleUpon toolbar, per suggestion at Village Pump. Thanks! (BTW, your nowiki explanation confused me at first, since it rendered out without the nowiki--making it appear that interpretation could be turned off using just quotes. Now that I'm editing, I can see what you meant.) Dave Ayer (talk) 15:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about the nowiki tag mixup. Glad that you found out how to fix the problem! I prefer to reply on the talk page of the user who sent me the message, but others prefer to have the conversation in one place; it's a matter of personal preference. Graham87 15:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Sudden surge of edits to the Maria Montessori article

Hi Dave, Google is featuring Maria Montessori on its homepage today, as it's the 142nd anniversary of her birth, and as a result the Wikipedia article about her has received a phenomenal number of edits, some good, some not so good. It's been semi-protected to stem the tide of vandalism, and I've spent quite a bit of time today reviewing all the recent edits (there have been 113 of them, including my own, in the past 24 hours)! When you get a chance, could you go through the article to check that it's all still OK? You might also want to put it on your watchlist to keep track of changes to it easily. Graham87 14:05, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Graham. I'll have a look right now. Dave Ayer (talk) 15:55, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Controversy in Montessori Education.

Hiya Dave, I think it was you who asked if there was any evidence of controversy, well an article in 2005 in the Journal of Childhood Education, compared Montessori education with several other models of education. However, it fund no evidence to support it was linked to higher educational achievement. (Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Vol. 20, No. 1) _Thanks Tanj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.67.39 (talk) 08:22, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Montessori and Waldorf education

Hi Dave, I see some similarity between the two methods as described here. Could you help me to understand it? Was Steiner copying Montessori or their common ideas were developed by earlier pedagogists? Thanks. Pinea (talk) 22:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to thank you for your hard work and general excellence on Maria Montessori! Cheers, Ovinus (talk) 13:12, 3 January 2021 (UTC)