Practical Life for Grown-Ups By Scott Osborne
You Can Be a Montessori Adult You are now graduating from a Montessori High School: prepare yourself for questions. For the rest of your life, this will be a curiosity to other people. They will ask you about it, and they probably won’t understand it. Embrace this! If you were lucky enough to be in a Montessori school in your early years, you’ll be able to tell them about the Pink Tower or the Checkerboard or perhaps the big bang lessons. Or maybe you were here at NewGate for weeklong Opera planning or research trips or theater immersion weeks. But whatever you remember about your Montessori years, embrace them. These experiences have helped make you who you are today.
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Commencement NewGate High School May 28, 2021 | Sarasota, Florida
But you’re no longer a Montessori child. So, tonight, I’m going to give you a few brief suggestions for keeping Montessori in your life – for being a Montessori adult. I want to encourage you to think of your Montessori education not as something that’s done, something that’s over, but as something that is now in your hands to continue. About 15 years ago, I was teaching NewGate middle and high school students not so different from yourselves. We used to have many
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