by David Fleischacker One area that would be good to expand in a four-dimensional living classroom (which is the general character of a Montessori classroom) is the opportunities for children to learn about themselves and each other in terms of smell and affectivity.1 Smell is profoundly linked to affectivity. It naturally generates feelings at […]
Category: The Absorbent Stage
Pre-Natal Neural Research and the Absorbent Mind
by Dr. David Fleischacker During the 1990s, there was an explosion of studies funded and conducted on the brain. These included looking at the brain at different stages of human development and one of those stages was pre-natal development of the brain. Studies continue. This is absolutely fascinating. The vast neural and synaptic explosion that […]