Guidepost Montessori @guidepostschool
Giving your child the keys to life. We provide an education for independence, at school and beyond. 120+ schools and growing! guidepostmontessori.com Worldwide Joined November 2009-
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Everyone thinks that creativity and motivation come from tapping into your childhood issues and trauma. In fact they come from tapping into your childhood wonder and enthusiasm.
“Normal children have characteristics which are not common.” Montessori
Two-year-old’s first day at @guidepostschool. 🖤🏆
1. Matt Bateman @mbateman is the co-founder and philosopher-in-residence at @to_higherground Montessori. He writes extensively about the Montessori approach to educating kids (plus shares endlessly entertaining anecdotes about his own two small children).
“Man must be educated to realize his greatness and to become worthy of the powers that are his” –Montessori
“Man must be educated to realize his greatness and to become worthy of the powers that are his” –Montessori
🔥from my kids' @guidepostschool Montessori newsletter Maria Montessori centered human greatness. She taught history as a study of human progress: - All the beautiful things humanity has created - All the terrible things we have overcome cc: @mbateman @raygirn @jasoncrawford
“The little child who persists in his exercises, concentrated and absorbed, is obviously elaborating the constant man, the man of character, the man who will find in himself all human values, crowning that unique fundamental manifestation: persistence in work.” Montessori
“Actually, the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent, who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace, and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness.” Montessori
Things want to be used, and well-made things have an aesthetic that yields to their usage over time. Interestingly, Montessori thought that children primarily desiring “possession” of objects as opposed to “use” of objects is an early indication that development is off track.
Things want to be used, and well-made things have an aesthetic that yields to their usage over time. Interestingly, Montessori thought that children primarily desiring “possession” of objects as opposed to “use” of objects is an early indication that development is off track.
“Man builds himself through working. Nothing can take the place of work, neither physical well-being nor affection, and, on the other hand, deviations cannot be corrected by either punishment or example.” Montessori
> your 20s aren’t serious, relax > teenagers should be wild and irresponsible > childhood is supposed to be fun and carefree Your 20s are serious, adolescence is serious, childhood is serious, and your life is serious.
If you take children seriously but don’t take adults seriously, it backfires. You end up with child-centered parenting/education with nothing to center the child.
Montessori believed there's a tempting, but mistaken, way to understand child development. Without correcting this error, our approach to parenting & education does more than hold children back, it can warp them. A kind of foot-binding for the soul. The mistake goes like this:
“…man is the king of the earth, of all things visible and invisible, he penetrates the secrets of life, growing new flowers and breeding new animals…, increasing through chemistry the natural produce of the earth, transforming things as though by magical powers.” Montessori
In conventional schools, kids often wait until 3rd grade or later to learn to multiply and divide large numbers Think operations like: 5432 x 23 or 785 / 14 But in Montessori schools, kids learn this at ~5yo or even earlier. How is this possible?
Here's a common critique of Montessori: >Montessori rushes child development. >Why do toddlers need to sweep the floor or wash windows? Why should 3-year-olds learn to read? Just let kids be kids! There is something right and something *deeply wrong* with this critique:
“The routine follows the environment” is such a powerful principle of childrearing. It won’t always get you all the way to the outcomes you want but it’s surprising how often it does. Set up 4yo’s room with a new dresser and now she’s dressing herself most mornings.
Most children are taught to read starting with the alphabet. But this is incredibly abstract, and one major reason why learning to read is traditionally so miserable. Montessori discovered a better way to build literacy, and it starts with *toddlers*:
"The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school but for life" -Maria Montessori
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Two-year-old’s first day at @guidepostschool. 🖤🏆
Spring in hill country
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“Man must be educated to realize his greatness and to become worthy of the powers that are his” –Montessori
@patwater @mbrendan1 @jasoncrawford @guidepostschool @raygirn Education and Peace chapter 2 (and elsewhere)
🔥from my kids' @guidepostschool Montessori newsletter Maria Montessori centered human greatness. She taught history as a study of human progress: - All the beautiful things humanity has created - All the terrible things we have overcome cc: @mbateman @raygirn @jasoncrawford
“The little child who persists in his exercises, concentrated and absorbed, is obviously elaborating the constant man, the man of character, the man who will find in himself all human values, crowning that unique fundamental manifestation: persistence in work.” Montessori
@mbateman I remember being disappointed with the Montessori ideal of a normalized child when I first came across it until I realized what is considered normal for a child is actual pretty awesome.
“Actually, the normal child is one who is precociously intelligent, who has learned to overcome himself and to live in peace, and who prefers a disciplined task to futile idleness.” Montessori
e.g. “It has been said that man’s greatest delight is to possess things. No! Man’s greatest delight is using them! Using them to perfect himself and at the same time to improve his environment… “Love impels the child not toward the possession of an object, but toward the work…
That language feels imprecise—to possess something just is to be able to use it—but I think there’s something to what she’s saying.
Things want to be used, and well-made things have an aesthetic that yields to their usage over time. Interestingly, Montessori thought that children primarily desiring “possession” of objects as opposed to “use” of objects is an early indication that development is off track.
When you buy things that are better used, your life doesn't automatically degrade over time the way it does when you buy things that are meant to be new and shiny. It's more restful.
“Man builds himself through working. Nothing can take the place of work, neither physical well-being nor affection, and, on the other hand, deviations cannot be corrected by either punishment or example.” Montessori
feel free to follow me for takes both serious and absurd (usually properly subordinated)
Relaxation, free-spiritedness, amusement, silliness, absurdity, and fun are at all ages absolutely important, irreplaceably meaningful, and strictly dependent on and essential component parts of taking yourself seriously.
> Childhood is serious, really? Yes! Confusions about the proper seriousness of 20-year-olds are downstream of confusions about the proper seriousness of childhood.
gm may you today achieve the focused spiritual elevation of a toddler peeling an orange
> your 20s aren’t serious, relax > teenagers should be wild and irresponsible > childhood is supposed to be fun and carefree Your 20s are serious, adolescence is serious, childhood is serious, and your life is serious.
One way to see 20th and 21st century attitudes towards children is that we stopped taking life as seriously while attempting to take children more seriously. 19th c. was awful with regards to children in many ways, but it had the enormous advantage that human life was serious.
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