Montessorium

A Montessori elementary program. Montessori all grown up.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

At @montessorium today discussing the structure and shape of knowledge with @mbateman

[Patrick Skinner - edu/acc @PSkinnerTech]

Had dinner with @yiran__c and two of the most passionate Montessori Guides I've ever met.

Their love for childhood education is completely unmatched to anything I've ever seen.

@montessorium really attracts the best talent to guide future generations.

[anna @annamorgsmiley]

happy halloween from @montessorium

[Miss Hannah @miss_hannahmc]

Exciting evening at @montessorium with @mbateman and @astupple

[mach nine @itsmach9]

@mbateman And we’d do it again :)

Thanks for hosting us at @montessorium, I was inspired to see the classroom culture and the hundreds+ diverse materials. My fav: Greek philosopher flashcards.

Kudos @annamorgsmiley & team

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

Announcing a new kind of Montessori program.

Short version: Montessori elementary, with 2 Hour Learning (viz. Alpha) platform on the shelf as a material.

Pilot this fall in Austin. Guide is the fantastic @annamorgsmiley. @drlauramazer and I leading development.

Long version:

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“Ever so many moralists continually say that our error today lies in wanting to base everything on man’s reason, and as many others are convinced that progress cannot be based solely on man’s reason and its dictatorial claims to rule our entire lives. But each side is quite certain that reason is sovereign and triumphant today. The truth of the matter, however, is that reason today is hidden under a dark cloud and has almost gone down to defeat. Moral chaos in fact is nothing but one side of the coin of our psychic decline; the other side is the loss of our powers of reason. The preeminent characteristic of our present state is an insidious madness, and our most immediate need a return to reason.”

Montessori

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

8. Matt Bateman

@mbateman is the co-founder and philosopher-in-residence at @guidepostschool Montessori.

He writes about Montessori and education philosophy (plus shares endlessly wonderful anecdotes about his own two small kids, who you may come to know even better than Matt).

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

4yo doing Montessori flower arranging.

She’s already trimmed the flowers; here you can see her fill a pitcher, fill the vase, put the flowers in the vase, mist them, place a doily, place the vase, roll up her apron, and dry/clean everything.

Sped up segment of a 15 min process.

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“If the child were one day to exclaim: ‘But it is you who prevent me from developing will and character; when I seem naughty, it is because I am trying to save myself; how can I help being awkward when I am sacrificed?’…

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

8. Matt Bateman

@mbateman is the co-founder and philosopher-in-residence at @guidepostschool Montessori.

He writes about Montessori and education philosophy (plus shares endlessly wonderful anecdotes about his own two small kids, who you may come to know even better than Matt).

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“Things are the first and best teachers.”

Montessori

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“To be contented with the imaginary, and to live as if what we imagine actually existed; to run after illusion, and ‘not to recognise’ reality, is a thing so common that scarcely is it apprehended.”

Montessori

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

4. Matt Bateman

@mbateman is the co-founder and philosopher-in-residence at @guidepostschool Montessori.

He writes about Montessori and education philosophy (plus shares endlessly wonderful anecdotes about his own two small kids, who you may come to know even better than Matt).

[Samantha Watkins @_samantha_joy]

Montessori's formal reading curriculum starts around 2.5yo. There are NO:

> rote drills or workbooks
> guessing games or 'sight words'

But by ~5yo, children read, write, and study grammar at ~3rd grade level and they *love* every minute of learning.

Here's HOW:

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“…little by little civilization closes the social world to the child. Everything is overregulated, too narrow, too encumbered, too fast. Not only is the quick rhythm of the busy adult an obstacle to him, but the machine comes along…

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

Montessori is what it looks like when you approach education

1. holistically, viz. with intent to developmentally support a great many facets of life

2. with an strong, explicit set of moral values, used to rank and order these facets

3. as an engineering problem

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“Discipline is…attained indirectly, that is, by developing activity in spontaneous work. Everyone must learn how to control himself and how to engage in calm and silent activity, for no other purpose than that of keeping alive that inner flame on which life depends.”

Montessori

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

A child “would rather dress himself than be dressed, even magnificently. He prefers washing himself to the pleasant feeling of being clean. He would rather build a house than own one. He is thus disposed because he must first form his own life before he can enjoy it.”

Montessori

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

“…our marvelous civilization lacks today…the feeling that human life is triumphant over the cosmos: humankind should feel itself king of all that has been created, transformer of the earth, builder of a new nature, collaborator in the universal work of creation.”

Montessori