This fall, Montessorium was lucky to bring education writer Samantha Blaisdell onto our content team. Samantha is a former teacher, trained mechanical…

November 2022

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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October 2022

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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August 2022

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…

July 2022

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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June 2022

Growing children need benevolence. They need an intelligible world, one full of affordances for action and understanding. They need other human beings…

May 2022

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
Day four of a week of highlights from the history of education
This week we’re sharing 5 of the best pieces from the history of education initiative on Montessorium, one per day. Yesterday we looked at Jason Rheins…
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Day two of a week of highlights from the history of education
Hi everyone, One of our major initiatives at Montessorium is a project to better-understand the history of education. We offer a course on its history…