Smell and Affectivity in Children

June 24, 2017 davidfleischacker 0 Comments

by David Fleischacker One area that would be good to expand in a four-dimensional living classroom (which is the general character of a Montessori classroom) is the opportunities for children to learn about themselves and each other in terms of smell and affectivity.1   Smell is profoundly linked to affectivity.  It naturally generates feelings at …

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The Importance of Motor-Sensory Refinement

June 17, 2017 davidfleischacker 0 Comments

by David Fleischacker, Ph.D. As one scans the animal world, one notices that in moving from more primitive animals to higher animals, there is an increase in the freedom gained to operate in this world.  That freedom is not merely in a single individual of the species but rather found in the species.  Every individual …

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Phyllis Wallbank: Her Dream Classroom

June 10, 2017 davidfleischacker 0 Comments

  By David Fleischacker One day some years ago, Phyllis Wallbank and I were sitting in her living room looking across the pond in her back yard (this is the picture that is the backdrop for this blogsite), and we were talking about the unity of all things in creation.  She then in her spontaneous …

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Opening the Doors to the Higher and Lower Levels of Things

June 3, 2017 davidfleischacker 0 Comments

by David Fleischacker This one will be short.  One important element that young people should come to discover on their own, but through a carefully prepared environment is the higher and lower orders of being.  Materials and experiences in life can open up this grand discovery.  Descriptively, we get a sense of this order — …

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