What if honoring the whole child means honoring the whole of humanity?
Sometimes we convince ourselves that our work stops at the classroom door- that if we just prepare beautiful environments and follow the child, peace will somehow emerge on its own. But we don’t have time to wait for perfectly prepared children to fix the world. We need justice now.
In this urgent conversation with Hannah Richardson and Frank George IV, co-founders of the Peace Rebellion, we confront what it means to move from conversation to action. They’ve built a nonprofit organization providing Montessorians with concrete tools: emergency defense resources, ICE information, food access guides, labor rights support, community gathering spaces, and global solidarity dossiers.
Why must Montessorians engage in justice work right now?
How do we prepare environments for our children to grow into as adults, not just as students?
What’s the difference between peace as compliance and peace as liberation?
Hannah and Frank challenge us to see that Montessori is not safe from the world, it lives in the world. And that means we cannot abdicate our responsibility to create systems of justice and liberation for adults. From fighting for fair wages to providing SNAP benefits resources during government shutdowns, the Peace Rebellion embodies what it means to act with urgency.
This conversation isn’t about adding justice to your to-do list—it’s about recognizing that without justice work, we’re not fully embodying Montessori.
All these paradigm-shattering insights on action, urgency, and what it truly means to work toward peace, in this episode of Breaking the Paradigm.
Thanks, Hannah and Frank, for a great conversation!
Check out the Peace Rebellion here: https://www.thepeacerebellion.org/
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