My name is Dr. David Fleischacker. It has been 19 years now since I met Phyllis Wallbank at a Lonergan Conference at Boston College. She was showing us a simple set of materials that helped children to learn math and everyday life activities. How she revealed to us the secrets of Montessori revealed as well the secret interior life of children and of all genuine education. For the next ten years I went to England and visited Phyllis while working with her on projects. In reality, she was giving me a great gift; all her major insights into education. Phyllis is now 98. She spent a life teaching young people and old. She taught me. Now I must pass on what I am seeing as a major revitalization of all education. It combines together the latest in scientific research, the best of philosophy and theology, and the most brilliant minds of the most brilliant educators of history. It turns our traditional two dimensional learning environments into four dimensional learning worlds. That is what this blog will be about.
-Dr. David Fleischacker
Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota