Archive - Points of Interest

Highlighting "The Parenting Handbook"

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

Feb 13, 2023 •

November 2022

The Great Rethink in Education, Austin

Montessorium’s mission, at the object level, is to articulate a true philosophy of education. Accordingly, our primary meta-level thesis that philosophy…

Nov 20, 2022 •

October 2022

Montessori school is better

A couple of weeks ago, the venerable Emily Oster published a newsletter piece titled “Is Montessori School Better?” Unfortunately for Montessorians, her…

Oct 18, 2022 •

August 2022

The Great Rethink in Education, v0.1.1

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…

Aug 16, 2022 •

July 2022

Podcast highlights

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…

Jul 19, 2022 •

June 2022

Benevolence without compromise

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

Jun 12, 2022 •

May 2022

Against two commonplaces

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…

May 18, 2022 •

Spelunking with Socrates

Ending a week of highlights from the history of education with the Allegory of the Cave

May 7, 2022 •

The achievement of growing up

Day four of a week of highlights from the history of education

May 6, 2022 •

"The claims for the Montessori methods far exceed their actual value..."

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…

May 5, 2022 •

Classical skepticism about classical education

Day two of a week of highlights from the history of education

May 4, 2022 •

Did a "factory model" ruin 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…

May 3, 2022 •

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