The Montessori study course “von allem sein” is to be different from the previous course, but in all respects unique. For the first time there is the possibility to study Maria Montessori’s cosmic curriculum for young people on the way to higher maturity in an atmosphere of fresh learning culture.
Also the necessary teaching aids and working models for supporting the young people are created automatically and an awareness of the high scientific and poetic atmosphere of these years is developed for this new learning culture.
K. E. Palmgren, director of a Swedish school (Samskola) wrote at the end of the 19th Century about a teacher’s picture:
It is not a matter of coming into the Samskola and merely giving a lesson. It is a matter of deeply grasping ones profession, feeling and experience. Here I now stand in the place of the father and the mother, I must not only teach, but also give it meaning that helps to strengthen the character of the young children, that the youths feel they have a friend before them, that they are an influence of the living personality of the teacher’s feelings and experiences themselves, so that the student, on their part, give the teacher the best that they have, their confidence, their life-long hope for the future, and their joy. (Translated)
Similarly, some years later Rainer Maria Rilke in his letter “Samskola” in which he wrote:
And in relation to life, this school does not want to be different, so it does not need teachers who take this profession; they must not be seized by their profession. It is not enough for them to rule an object; for this object must stand in the open air, and it must not be isolated, not cut off, not lifted from all contexts if something stirs in the world, it must tremble and sound, one must be able to remember it, and the life of the various subjects will always be the subject of life.” (Translated)
The Montessori study course “von allem sein” offers interested people the opportunity to become teachers of a new learning culture, providing a unique opportunity to explore new paths.