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A fantastic article on education was published by Huffington Post yesterday. (Reminded me a bit of, well, my own post on the same topic) John Whitehead looks at zero-tolerance and discipline policies in modern American schools and makes key insights into how these are influencing the social development of children. The [...]
I find myself constantly amazed at the lack of ethics and logic, even just plain common sense, regarding our treatment of children in society. The startling lack of judgment on the part of the Lower Merion School District (The latest headlines read:
A suburban school district secretly captured at least 56,000 webcam photographs [...]
This article on Mises.org (HT: Blake Stephenson) gives an example of how the negative feedback loops inherent in large, centrally directed bureaucracies stifle the use of judgment, local knowledge and initiative.
The article illustrates why the modern state should not be in charge of public education. But I think it also suggests that there [...]
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make [...]
It is important to note that the economic crisis we are in right now is not the result of technical or material conditions. It is an economic problem, a problem regarding the coordination of individuals’ plans and the available resources.
Sustainability requires a balance of conservation with use. Governments everywhere subsidize consumption and tax saving [...]
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.” ~Maria Montessori
I recently returned from my first North American Montessori Teachers Association Meeting, held in Seattle, WA. What I learned there absolutely reaffirmed that education is the best way, certainly the best voluntary way, to support liberty. [...]
“If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.” ~Maria Montessori
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for [...]
Maria Montessori writes the following in “To Educate the Human Potential”:
“How can the mind of a growing individual continue to be interested if all our teaching be around one particular subject of limited scope, and is confined to the transmission of such small details of knowledge as he is able to memorize? How can [...]
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts hope in everything…adopts any religion, and the prejudices and the habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. That is the child! ~Maria Montessori
Nature says copy your parents…whatever your interests are, the child gets tremendously interested in them [...]
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