Paul Epstein, Ph.D.

Montessori Education and the Knowledge Evolution

In this talk, Paul will explore the impact of 21st-century technologies and AI on learning and knowledge acquisition, with a focus on Montessori education. By all accounts, AI is promised to enhance active, experiential learning while also presenting new challenges for fostering critical thinking, creativity, and ethical reasoning. Instead of assuming that knowledge technologies such as AI challenge Montessori practices, Paul suggests that Montessori principles challenge the knowledge technologies. Montessori education is strongly positioned to evolve knowledge.

The talk will be guided by four key questions:

  • What is knowledge?
  • What is the Montessori understanding of how children and adolescents develop knowledge?
  • How should we guide children and adolescents in today’s knowledge evolution?
  • How can Montessori principles evolve our knowledge?

AUDIO VERSION

Paul Epstein, Ph.D.

For over 50 years, children have been Paul's teachers. They are most patient when they teach him how to serve as a teacher, administrator, director of teacher training, university professor, author, and conference speaker.

Paul Epstein, Ph.D. has consulted with new and established Montessori early childhood, elementary and secondary schools in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has also developed and led Montessori teacher and administer certification programs accredited by MACTE and affiliated by AMS in the US and in Asia.

"Children teach with an intelligence of love, and this love teaches us to stop interfering and correcting who they are. When we learn to accept ourselves, we are less likely to change them. We may change their environments, and we can also change ourselves. When we embrace this intelligence, we allow our hearts to heal. We begin to make peace with ourselves, and then with others too." 

Discussion

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