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Friday Note: Vocational Training for the Soul

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Montessori considers even this, the most practical function of education, to be primarily a matter of character, of soulcraft, of values and virtues. The question is fundamentally not one of skills—though skills are a crucial part of the picture—but of how to create the sort of person that they can find happiness in work. The capacity to center oneself with good, meaningful, effortful, externally-focused work is largely a matter of habits and values. (View Highlight)

Education should be designed around empowering people to imbue work—the whole range of professions, from masonry to engineering, from the arts to the sciences, from social work to banking—with moral value. It is a source of pride, a station in the grand battle against entropy, a way to participate in the human project of shaping the world to our benefit. (View Highlight)

Education should help students learn to find joy in sustained effort. This is best started very young, leveraging the capacity of infants and toddlers to exercise sustained concentration in service of goals. (View Highlight)

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