#171 "All Work Is Noble," Montessori, and Kids & Work — Matt Bateman on starting growing up with the internet, digital and industrial literacy, studying philosophy and learning how to teach, starting the Guidepost school network, how to train teachers, how children learn and work, values in education, agency, and writing his new book

Matt Bateman has a PhD in philosophy. He has abandoned the academic career, to pursue education in the Montessori system. A dad of three, he is passionate about educating children. Having worked a lot with training the teachers in the Montessori approach, he has now taken a step back to focus on writing his book.

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(00:00) - Intro • (00:54) - The scripts that Matt grew up with

• (04:40) - Growing up with the internet

• (07:42) - Kids and technology, digital and industrial literacy

• (13:33) - Babysitting, PhD in Philosophy and learning how to teach

• (17:07) - Getting into Montessori

• (19:02) - Starting the Guideposts & How to train good teachers

• (23:50) - The pathological approach to work we learnt and how little children naturally want to help

• (32:28) - “All work is noble”

• (40:29) - The role of values in education through history

• (48:11) - The Montessori system, differences in non-alphabetic writing systems

• (53:19) - Agency as the aim of education

• (58:30) - Advice for parents, the pros and cons of college

• (01:05:10) - Matt’s new book & the hidden bad value system taught in modern schools

• (01:09:24) - Closing remarks