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2"Your Kids Are Already Communists, and College Will Make It Worse"
3Jeff Bezos as Montessorian
2Children in the US are raised to be communists. Most of the parents are, too, and don’t even know it. It doesn’t matter if you send them to public or private schools, as all degree-granting schools bias the learning process against the competitive, capitalist, “liberal,” open-minded society—even though its benefits are all around us helping to feed, cloth, house, and protect us.

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05.10.2024 #minneapolis #police #cars
Minneapolis police have arrested a 10-year-old boy for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle through a school playground last month.

The incident, which happened on September 20, was caught on CCTV.

Footage shows a black vehicle driving back and forth near the playground apparatus, where more than a dozen children ran and played.
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (31 August 1870 † 6 May 1952) was an Italian physician and philosopher. She developed Montessori education.
Family and childhood
Maria Montessori's family belonged to the educated middle class. Her father Alessandro Montessori worked in the Ministry of Finance and headed the state tobacco factory. Her mother's name was Renilde Stoppani. Her great-uncle was the Catholic theologian and geologist Antonio Stoppani. His theory of the connection between theology and the natural sciences contains the basic idea according to which Montessori developed her educational methods. Maria Montessori was already interested in natural sciences during her school days and attended a technical high school – against the resistance of her conservative father.
Children's House ("Casa dei Bambini")
Contrary to widespread assumptions, Maria Montessori did not found the so-called Casa dei Bambini (Italian for "children's house") on January 6, 1907, a day care center for mentally healthy children from socially disadvantaged families, in Rome's working-class district of San Lorenzo. She was offered the scientific management by the construction company Istituto Romano di Beni Stabili (IRBS). Montessori intended to call the institution the laboratory for the study of the nature of the child.
Originally, these were only to be kept in a "people's residence". When it came to care, she transferred the aids she had developed for the support of mentally disabled children to the children of poor people. The results were so good that they "filled her with the greatest amazement and incredulity", as she herself describes in "Children are different" and she developed her method step by step. A key experience from this time was her observation of a three-year-old girl who, completely absorbed in her occupation with operational cylinder blocks, did not allow herself to be disturbed even by the most massive distractions. Montessori later described the expression of concentrated attention that Montessori was able to observe in this child as the "polarization of attention", to whose experimental research she devoted a large part of her further work.
Montessori method
Report in The New Student's Reference Work Chicago, 1914
From the experiences gained during this time, she developed the Montessori method (Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica, first version in 1909, then constantly expanded, and L'autoeducazione, 1916) for the education of children, which has become popular today in many parts of the world. After a meeting between Montessori and Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini, the Montessori method was introduced in Italian schools in 1924. Through this protection, the Italian Montessori society was supported by the fascist government. In 1927, this support was strengthened. Montessori's estrangement from the fascist government began in 1934, when the regime tried more and more to interfere in the daily work of Montessori schools, for example in the requirement to wear uniforms. After Montessori education was banned and the Montessori Academy in Rome was closed in 1936, Montessori left Italy in 1939.
Son Mario Montessori
Maria Montessori had her son Mario Montesano Montessori on March 31, 1898. The father of the child was her colleague Giuseppe Montesano (1868–1951). He was entered in the birth register under the name Mario Pipilli with the note "Parents unknown". In 1901, shortly before his marriage to Maria Aprile, his father agreed to Mario being given his family name, but demanded that the child's existence be kept secret.Mario grew up together with his foster-brother Liberato Olivero and was visited by Maria Montessori again and again. Liberato Olivero, who later became mayor of Passo Corese, remained connected to his foster brother even as an adult. After the death of her mother Renilde Montessori, Maria Montessori took in her now 15-year-old son in the spring of 1913; it was now given her name.
Later, until her death, he served his mother as a secretary and partly also as a manufacturer of the sensory and learning materials she developed, and developed Montessori materials for mathematics himself. The Montessori material is very focused on sensory perceptions. For example, there are noise cans and pressure cylinders. The materials developed for reading, writing and arithmetic are quite challenging for the children. However, they should not stimulate the children's imagination so much as bring out certain skills. In the end, the learning success was decisive for Montessori, not the development of children's creativity. Mario is also credited with playing an essential role in the development of the pedagogical concept of Cosmic Education (Montessori pedagogy for the ages of 6 to 12). It was only when he was over 40 years old that Maria Montessori confessed to him as his mother.
After the death of his mother in 1952, Mario M. Montessori headed the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) until his death in 1982.
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³Jeff Bezos as Montessorian
A coincidence that is nevertheless significant in this sense may be that the currently most potent sponsor of the Montessori movement is someone who himself went to a Montessori school and has translated its principles into business processes so successfully that he was able to rise to become one of the richest men in the world on the backs of often miserably paid employees: Jeff Bezos. At Amazon, a rigid "prepared environment" ensures a behavior-controlling "polarization of attention" in which "discipline, order, calm, obedience" are constantly required.

The employees are constantly monitored. Attempts at co-determination by works councils or trade unions are fought with all their might. Anyone who does not comply will be fired. It is fitting that other leaders of the digital economy such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Airbnb founder Brian Chesky, and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin are also Montessori alumni.
a part: How fascist is Montessori? /https://www.furche.at/gesellschaft-bildung/wie-faschistisch-ist-montessori-8339289
Autor: Stefan T. Hopmann, war Professor für Bildungs­wissenschaft an der Universität Wien und ist nun Professor an der Universität von Südost-Norwegen
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