This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical engineer, philosophy student, and newly-minted Montessorian. She’s written a number of excellent pieces on her Substack,
Montessorium’s mission, at the object level, is to articulate a true philosophy of education. Accordingly, our primary meta-level thesis that philosophy…
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A couple of weeks ago, the venerable Emily Oster published a newsletter piece titled “Is Montessori School Better?” Unfortunately for Montessorians, her…
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Last weekend we hosted another iteration of our Great Rethink in Education mini conference, again in New York at our Guidepost Museum Mile school, and…
Hi everyone, Back in February, I had the pleasure of joining Vaden Masrani and Ben Chugg on the Increments podcast. It was an incredible conversation…
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Growing children need benevolence. They need an intelligible world, one full of affordances for action and understanding. They need other human beings…
Hi everyone, Two great pieces this week, one on project-based learning, the other on work-life balance. Against project-based learning I was musing on…
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Ending a week of highlights from the history of education with the Allegory of the Cave
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