🔥from my kids' Guidepost Montessori 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

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“After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing that we need most in the world.” — Phillip Pullman

Thinking of pulling your kids from school?

5 podcasts you need👇

1. The Hannah Frankman Podcast Hannah Frankman

2. LiberatEd Kerry McDonald

3. Life Without School Stark Raving Dad

4. Sold a Story APM Reports

3. KindlED Prenda | Microschools Made Easy

What else?❤️

Always check the incentives of the people giving the advice.

'I bring a suitcase to library book sales.'

I have never seen a more aspirational tweet, ever.

I need to class up my cardboard box game.

The way people revere John Gatto and John Holt is nothing compared to how we should revere Maria Montessori - she was a genius - medical doctor, engineer, mathematician, researcher, and child prodigy. Many groups tried to co-op her genius for political purposes, but she would…

Kids could just do this at home. And it would probably be more fun.

I have never wanted to retweet something more.

Pretend you’re a monster and chase them around the house. Toss them into the pool. Go to the playground and play with other kids. Tuck them in at night and read them good books. Pour so much love into their little soul that they spend the rest of their life pouring it back out.

This is the real work: making the highest good habitual and commonplace.

It is *much easier* to undo the damage of not teaching your kid all the right things, than it is to undo the damage of making them hate learning.

To prepare a child for the rest of life.

Which it typically does very badly.

I've spent the past 10 years working in almost every sector of alternative education.

Homeschooling, alternative schools, college prep, and everything in between.

If a parent asked me for my top advice for their kids' education -

These are the 10 things I would tell them 👇