NP Montessori method (was Re: Ayn Rand

[jbor]

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>From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
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> The notion of "directed play", the taking away of the pacifiers, the talking
> to the infants as though they were adult, the thing with the locked cabinet
> and the keys, the revolt of the babies using the toys as a construct-o-set
> on their pacifier-rescue mission: it's a fractured fable straight from the
> pages of the Montessori textbook!

As well, of course, as a parody of that whole Bruce Willis Die Hard/
Stallone/Harrison Ford/(MacGyver/Rainier Wolfcastle) action adventure epic
genre.

best



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    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
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