QuantumMontessori

CONVENER(S): DR. RUTH SELMAN <mailto:[email protected]>;, DR. JERRY SELMAN <mailto:JERUHE@AOIL,COM>;

PARTICIPANTS: ILYA C. TULLOSS <[email protected],EDU> PRABHAW WILLIAMS ,[email protected]> CARMEN J. COLLIER ,[email protected]>

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:

OUR NANO-MEETING ON QUANTUM MONTESSORI--AN OUT-OF-BOX CONCEPT FOR BRING MONTESSORI INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM-- PROCEDED ALONG TWO LINES. THE DISCUSSION OF QUANTUM MECHANICAL THEORY ITSELF, AND THE APPLICATION AND MODIFICATIONS OF CLASSICAL MONTESSORI THEORY NECESSARY TO BRING IT IN INTO THE DIGITAL WORLD OF THE FUTURE.

MONTESSORIANS MUST FIT INTO TODAY'S WORLD, AS WELL AS TOMORROW'S QUANTUM-EVERYTHING WORLD.

QUANTUM MECHANICS STARTED APPROX. NINETY YEARS AGO, ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS MONTESSORI. MANY NOBEL PRIZES HAVE BEEN AWARDED TO PHYSICISTS WORKING IN THIS CHALLENGING AREA, INCLUDING EINSTEIN, DIRAC, FEYNMAN, SCHROEDINGER. PLANCK. THE LATE RICHARD FEYNMAN, WHO RECEIVED THE AWARD [1965] FOR HIS WORK IN QUANTUM MECHANICS, SAID THAT NOBODY UNDERSTANDS QUANTUM MECHANICS! STARTING OUT WITH THE FACT THAT ATOMS CAN BE BOTH A PARTICLE AND A WAVE LENGTH, UPSETTING ALL OF OUR CONVENTIONAL LOGIC, LEADING TO SUCH TERMS AS "SUPERPOSITION," "ENTANGLEMENT," FRUSTRATION," "COHERENCY." ANDS TO STATEMENTS--- "EAT YOUR CAKEW AND HAVE IT, TOO!" "IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD!" "YOU CAN DANCE AT TWO WEDDINGS AT THE SAME TIME!"

QUANTUM MECHANICS HELPS US MEET THE MULTIPLE GLOBAL POINTS OF VEWS IN TODAY'S CULTURE: IT IS ALL INCLUSIVE, OPEN, NON-FRAGMENTED, AND WITH MORE UNKNOWNS ("UNKS" AND UNK-UNKS ) THAN WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH. OUR MILLENNIAL POSTMODERN WORLD IS A BABYLON OF SIMULTANEOUS POINTS OF VIEW; ULTIMATELY IMPACTING TRUTH AND REALITY.

WE BORROW TWO PRINCIPLES FROM THE HAWAIIAN SHAMAN---PONO, EFFECTIVENESSS IS THE MEASURE OF TRUTH. IF IT WORKS IT IS TRUE. MONTESSORI WORKS---THEREFORE, IT IS TRUE. ALOHA, TO LOVE IS TO BE HAPPY WITH, FROM THE GREEKS WE BORROW THEIR TWO DEFINITIONS OF TIME: CHRONOS TIME (LINEAR) AND KAIROS TIME (THE NON-LINEAR ASPECT), KAIROS TIME IS WHEN PEOPLE LEARN. IT IS THE TIME OF PASSIONATE CREATIVITY, THE TIME WHEN THINGS HAPPEN---WHEN PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED. WHEN EVERYTHING WORKS OUT PERFECTLY [EWOP].

ALTHOUGH MONTESSORI'S VISION INCLUDES THE EMOTIONAL MOIETY, IT DOES NOT PROVIDE A SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION OF THE WHOLENESS OF EMOTIONS-DESIRES-FEELINGS, OR THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE VITAL TRIAD OF PHYSICAL-MENTAL-SPIRITUAL SUBSYSTEMS INHERENT IN Q-LOGIC.

                                                                            QUANTUM MONTESSORI IS THE NEW VISION NEEDED FOR SURVIVAL IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. AS OUR LIVES ARE "ENTANGLED" IN NEW PARADIGMS, PARADOXES AND PUZZLES.   WE MUST CONTINUE TO CO-EVOLVE IN AWARENESS, MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS.
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