{"id":10232,"date":"2015-11-10T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:18:50","slug":"montessori-inspired-on-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10232","title":{"rendered":"Montessori-Inspired: On Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0013\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/670\/22278313444_d4c3289381_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0013\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/670\/22278313444_0f868818b6_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0013\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon observing uprisings of fascism in Europe during the Hitler regime, Dr. Maria Montessori warned of the dangers of blind obedience: <em>&#8220;&#8230; the obedience which is expected of a child both at home and in the school &#8212; an obedience admitting neither of reason or of justice &#8212; prepares the man to be docile to blind forces.&#8221;<\/em> She went on to say that <em>&#8220;the child who has never learned to act alone, to direct his own actions, to govern his own will, grows into an adult who is easily led.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Montessori teachers refused to declare loyalty to fascism in 1931, Hitler closed down Montessori schools. Dr. Montessori&#8217;s books were burned and she was promptly forced into exile.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote an article for The Washington Post which went up yesterday regarding the strong-willed child and obedience. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/parenting\/wp\/2015\/11\/09\/why-its-good-to-have-a-strong-willed-child-and-why-you-should-let-up-on-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested! And for the record, I&#8217;ve been told by every one of his teachers since he was a wee thing that Oliver is a pleasure to have in class. We love you, buddy, all the way! Don&#8217;t listen to the haters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon observing uprisings of fascism in Europe during the Hitler regime, Dr. Maria Montessori warned of the dangers of blind obedience: &#8220;&#8230; the obedience which is expected of a child both at home and in the school &#8212; an obedience admitting neither of reason or of justice &#8212; prepares the man to be docile to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Montessori-Inspired: On Obedience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,187],"tags":[168,146,48,93],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montessori-inspired","category-motherhood","tag-articles","tag-montessori","tag-motherhood","tag-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10234,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}