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Category Archives: Epistemology

The Quest for a Thinking Assistant, Part I

Throughout my career, both as an engineer and as a lifelong student on a large host of topics, I have repeatedly faced the problem of how best to organize information in an external representation to reflect and aid in my internal understanding of a field

The Philosophy of an Elementary Montessori classroom – Part II

At the final meeting with our Montessori school staff, we discussed the elementary curriculum in detail. We had always realized that there were weaknesses in the curriculum having to do with the teaching of multiculturalism, and the approach to science, which emphasized life sciences, and

The Philosophy of an Elementary Montessori classroom – Part I

Having a strong aversion to public schooling, as well as a stronger aversion to the methods of education used in the public system, my two youngest daughters have been enrolled in a local Montessori school for the past three years. We were drawn to the