POLITICS

Carl Jung tells us that “The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally unsolvable. They can never be solved, only outgrown.”

I think politics originated when we first went to Moses or the Great Chief of our tribe or the leader of our neighborhood gang or the CEO of the company or the Guru or Avatar. Always there were leaders to elect to tell us what to do, what we had to do, and what we had to pay to have it done. Here lie the roots of commerce and the roots of war.

Maria Montessori tells us that, "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war." If we want peace, we have to let go of what doesn’t work, what we have outgrown, and be present to the new world arriving. The child has the potential to do this naturally when given freedom and independence to work in collaboration with an environment of unknowingness where his intellect can develop and create a new world.

We must clearly understand, Maria Montessori reminds us in her book, “The Absorbent Mind,” that “when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, a worker who cannot live without working and being active. This he has in common with all other forms of life, and to curb it makes him degenerate.”

Please read my book: “Montessori—Living the Good Life.”