Author: davidfleischacker

Philia de Humanitas As I continue to hear more about how young people can no longer objectively distinguish between virtual worlds and reality, or at least do not have a significant apprehension of import of the real world as opposed to the virtual world, I thought I should say a bit more about substance.  By …

by David Fleischacker One of the areas that children naturally discover is that of substances or unities.  A substance–to use an ancient definition–is that to which one predicates properties and experiences.  It is that identity or unity to which belong colors and shapes, or that which is involved in activity and change.  With the advent …

FYI — I will not be posting blogs during August, 2017.

by David Fleischacker It is key that all materials and activities in the Montessori world assist the child in self-correction.  The explanation for this is intrinsic to the nature of the child. Interiority reveals this in questions.  The questing spirit of a child continues to press forward until there are no further relevant questions about …

by David Fleischacker Though the modern educational world has developed thousands of techniques for dealing with this or that situation in the classroom, there is something central that has never changed in the core of education.  That unchangeable reality is that true education generates insights, and all insights spring from patterned images or what Saint …