What is the role of the educator?
The Alternative
How do we foster these virtues?
The Physical Environment
What prepares students for the collaborative, creative culture of the free society?
The Methodology
The Social Environment
Conclusion
How do we make the
methodology of
our classrooms consonant
with our goals
for a free society?
“[Education] must aim
at improving the individual
in order to improve society.”
Maria Montessori,
From Childhood to Adolescence
The Premises
- The Self-Education Premise
- Free-Society Premise
- Classroom is a micro-society
- Habits and Virtues for a Free Society
- Rational independence
- Peaceful cooperativeness
- Creativity
- Active pursuit of life-affirming values
The Self-Education Premise
Free Society Premise
Teaching Freedom
Habits & Virtues
- Rational independence
- Peaceful cooperativeness
- Creativity
- Active pursuit of life-affirming values