It seems as if all the threads on the shootings, end up being discussed as a gun control issue.
And , although it is a very valid point, and should be dealt with.
The problem with the shootings goes far beyond gun control.
I truly believe that Maria Montessori had the answer, to man's inhumanity to man in her theory concerning the child and how he is being raised .
in an excerpt from one of her lectures, it states:
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The education that can result “will lead the way to a new humanity” and that education—
—has one end alone: leading the individual and society to a higher stage of development. This concept involves many factors and may seem obscure, said Montessori, but it becomes clearer if we realize that mankind has to fulfill a collective mission on earth, a mission involving all of humanity and therefore each and every human being.
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She talks about normalization:
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Normalization is a technical word borrowed from the field of anthropology. It means becoming a contributing member of society. Dr. Montessori used the term normalization to distinguish one of the processes that she saw in her work with the children at San Lorenzo in Rome. This process, the process of normalization, occurs when development is proceeding normally. She used the word normalization so that people would think that these qualities belonged to all children and were not something special just for a few.
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and then she speaks of the concept of deviation:
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Introduction of the concept Deviations
At the same time that Montessori was distinguishing the process of normalization she distinguished another process which she called deviations. She saw that the process of normalization and deviations is going on all of the time. It is what children are engaged in.
If you do not like the word deviations in referring to human beings, one option is to think of deviations as defenses. We are all familiar with the idea of being defensive. Another option is to think of a deviation as a detour. In Italian as in Spanish the word desviaciones refers to a detour in the road. Deviations or detours in development result from road blocks in the developmental process.
I like to think that hormic energy, or life force energy, runs through us like a crystal clear river. If the energy runs smoothly without barriers and stays within its river banks, we see normalization. If this river, this force is repressed and not allowed to flow in its normal channel, it will seek other ways to move.
The hormic energy may be damned up for a while producing an artificial passivity. Every now and then the dam will let loose a big burst of energy. The emotion that comes with that burst of energy may cause turbulence in the person's life. If energy is held in, The life force energy cannot be expressed in ways appropriate to the situation.
On the other hand if the river banks are not well defined, the water can spread too thin over the countryside. Just so, the hormic energy without any boundaries can spread out too thin and over too large an area of life. If the child has insufficient order or limits in his life then there is not enough life force to carry out anything much. The horme is dissipated.
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She goes on to say
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Present-day studies and brain research point out that the first two years of life are of exceptional importance in the formation and evolution of the human being. The child embodies “a nucleus of energies and capacities” that must develop “wholesomely.” Montessori understood that “in this period, man’s positive as well as his negative qualities come into being and that the sum total of these qualities will characterize the adult.”
Adults have not understood children or adolescents, and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them," Montessori wrote. "The adult must find within himself the still unknown error that prevents him from seeing the child as he is."
That last sentence, in case you missed it, is the secret. Achieve that, Maria Montessori said, and all kinds of peace will follow in the world. From the peace between parent and child will follow the peace between child and child, and man and man, and nation and nation.
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http://www.michaelolaf.net/lecture_secret.html
http://www.montessori-ami.org/congre...ey/paperah.htm
edited by cynthetiq to insert quotes