Author: davidfleischacker

  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 …

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 — …

by Phyllis Wallbank MBE [Phyllis Wallbank was an advance trainer for Maria Montessori.  As well, Phyllis organized the last international Montessori congress at which Maria was present before Maria died.  For years, Phyllis was a teacher and director of the Gatehouse school in East London.  For more on Phyllis see http://www.pwetrust.org/] I watched very recently a …

Today is April fools and it is no foolish point that I would like to discuss. The only foolish thing is my failed attempt to bring out this next point, and given the nature of it, failure is inevitable, hence so is my foolishness.  I am the April fool. Spring is coming soon.  It was …