We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man, who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mould the future of mankind.” - Montessori, The Absorbent Mind This is a political post. This is not a political post. I have a sixteen year old daughter, powerful and graceful and dignified. She is goofy sometimes and profound at others. She is just as likely to pull awa

It is the seventh week of the new year, and the US today endures the eighth school shooting in as many weeks, in a country that buries over a thousand children every year to gun violence. While Montessorians look forward to a peaceful future, in which no one's children are hurt at school, in which no one's children grow up to find solace in a gun, until that day, it falls to each of us to help comfort and protect the children in our care in the meantime. First, tend to your o