Higher Ground Education

We have a few regional leadership positions newly open, including in NYC and SF. We’re the biggest Montessori school network in the country (world?) and multidimensionally heterodox. If leading a swath of that sounds compelling, reach out or apply. boards.greenhouse.io/higherg…

This week I asked all of our staff at @to_higherground, most of whom are Montessori educators, to send me their best, most fundamental critiques of Montessori. Next week I'll compile the best objections and write a reply to each. Feel free to join in: higherground.substack.com/p/…

Btw if any company wants to offer as a benefit a banger of an on-site Montessori childcare program, we can do this, DMs are open

So at @to_higherground we’ve been exploring providing the Department of Defense with Montessori education for children of service members. It’s interesting as a microcosm of more general issues. The need for adaptability of programming to circumstances, for portability, etc.

.@raygirn or I have been writing a weekly note for all @to_higherground staff, including @guidepostschool, @AcademyIndustry, and @TPMontessorian staff. We moved this enterprise to Substack, so anyone interested can subscribe or see the archive. higherground.substack.com

My history of education class starts in a week! preparedmontessorian.com/pro… Topics: * From tutelage to education * Sparta: totalitarian pedagogy * Plato's intellectualization of education * The liberal arts (trivium, quadrivium) * Comenius: pansophism, Orbis Pictus (ctd.)

“…[T]o become educated (as all tyrants have always known) is to become inaccessibly independent, it is to acquire a dangerous way of assessing danger, and it is to hold in one’s hands a means of changing reality.” Baldwin