Inspired Learning Blog
A little encouragement, a reminder that “You’ve Got This!”, and helpful tools to lighten your workload.
- Short and sweet
- Helpful and meaningful
- Inspired and inspiring
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Want to Connect with Your Cosmic Task?
I’ve just finished up a short course on Cosmic Education with a group of adults unfamiliar with the Montessori elementary program. Before the course, these
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Summer Learning…Naturally!
In the northern hemisphere, it’s nearly summertime. The “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer” feel like sweet respite after this year of coming back to
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Stepping out of the busy-ness
[The Teacher] must first love and understand the universe. She must therefore prepare herself and work at it.” Maria Montessori, From Childhood to Adolescence pg. 20 Are you
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Learning to Trust While Making Steady Progress
“ ‘Courage, my dear, courage! … Go on triumphantly. I am here to help you.’ This kind of encouragement is instinctive in those who love
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Auto-Education: Too risky for older students? Will students learn only what they want
and not what they need to know?
“It is therefore necessary that the environment should contain the means of auto-education” Dr. Maria Montessori, The Advanced Montessori Method – I (1918/1991) p. 57
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3-Hour Work Cycle? You’ve GOT to be kidding!
“…when the cycle is completed…refreshed and satisfied, he experiences the higher social impulses…” -Dr. Maria Montessori, The Advanced Montessori Method – I (1918/1991) pg. 76