Bulldozer00's Blog

While reading Steven Levy‘s riveting “In The Plex“, I discovered the Maria Montessori teaching method:

“It’s really ingrained in their personalities,” she said. “To ask their own questions, do their own things. To disrespect authority. Do something because it makes sense, not because some authority figure told you. In Montessori school you go paint because you have something to express or you just want to do it that afternoon, not because the teacher said so. This is really baked into how Larry (Page) and Sergey (Brin) approach problems. They’re always asking ‘Why should it be like that?’ It’s the way their brains were programmed early on.”

“Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.”

To the non-managers out there: Have you been “rendered artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic“…….. without being aware of it?