education is the armament of peace
"Without exception, everyone was born with creative ability. It is essential that everyone be given the opportunity to express themselves
by creating something useful and beautiful."
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Hon. Dr. Thomas M. Shepherd, founder of the Tom Blaise Shepherd Existential Society of America, brings to you free home-schooling, utilizing the Montessori philosophy of education.
The Montessori Method, based on giving children and adults the freedom to create, not destroy, was developed by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator (1870-1952), who established Montessori schools throughout the world. To read more about the Montessori Method, click here.
According to Cambridge educator Alfie Kohn, author of No Contest: The Case Against Competititon, a coopertive atmosphere, rather than a competitive atmosphere, makes people happier, more secure, and more productive. Competition in the classroom stifles creativity. Alfie Kohn is also the author of What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated? Alfie Kohn Homepage
The Shepherd-Montessori Institute employs the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori, Alfie Kohn, Lajos Egri and others.
Dover Publications publishes books on The Montessori Method, art, architecture, crafts, history, humanities, language, literature, mathematics, music, mythology, philosophy, psychology, religion, science and other subjects.
Dr. Temple Grandin is a noted autistic professor at Colorado State University. She is also the author of many books. Her publications include Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals With Asperger's Syndrome.
Tom Miguel Shepherd Maria Montessori Clara Oive Shepherd Veroa Goodwin Tom & Xandra
SHEPHERD ARCHITECTURE
BOOKS
Frank Lloyd Wright
1869 - 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's foremost architects, did not have
a degree in architecture. In fact he did not graduate from college.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter of his time,
his day, his age. -- FLW
Wright on the Web
A Virtual Look at the Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
physicist, who developed the theory of relativity
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Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955
Einstein, world renowned physicist, was a lonely and "dreamy" child, who had difficulty making friends and appeared to be autistic. He preferred playing alone with blocks or making houses of cards. He would softly repeat every sentence he uttered, and was not considered fluent in speech even at age nine.
Never given an IQ test, it was Einstein's opinion that most people don't bother to use the intelligence they possess, that they are persuaded to let others do their thinking for them.
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architect ~ artist ~ composer ~ educator
Born in Alton, Kansas in 1904, Bruce Alonzo Goff showed remarkable creative talent at an early age. Largely self-educated, yet encouraged by his father and his father's colleagues, he went to work at an early age with leading established architects in Tulsa, ultimately being appointed a professor of architecture at University of Oklahoma, although he lacked the usual academic credentials.
As an educator, he placed a high value on unconventional methods
for stimulating creativity in his students. He employed a free association
technique in creating his designs.
Bruce Goff ~ Price Tower Archives Bruce Goff ~ Art Institute of Chicago
French Painter Michel Delacroix
Human Anatomy Online
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Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
by Lajos Egri
Hungarian-American
"the best book ever written on
the creative process" --T Shepherd
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(1888 - 1967)
Born in Hungary, Egri founded the Egri School of Writing in New York City in the 1930s. He spent his life writing and directing plays in the United States and Europe, as well as writing screenplays for the film industry.
From the lectures of writer-educator Lajos Egri:
Without exception everyone was born with creative ability. It is essential that people be given the opportunity to express themselves. If Balzac, De Maupassant, O. Henry, hadn't learned to write, they might have become inveterate liars,
instead of great writers.
If we can't create something useful or beautiful
. . . we shall certainly create something else: trouble, for instance.
Only by aiming for perfection in art can you succeed,
even if you never reach your goal.
You may claim that a real genius always finds a way to succeed, but that is not so. Every individual who has succeeded, despite adversity, has been given
the chance to do so.
Noone is born to be great. We love one certain subject more than any other.
Given all we need to further our knowledge, we are likely to make great strides. Forced to do something else, we become disgruntled, discouraged,
and end in failure.
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"Eistentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero,
without all the sanctions or support of religion or society -- Anita Brookner,
British novelist and art historian.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Life and Ideas
The Conscience of an Existentialist
by Tom Blaise de Shepherd
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Sweden First to Ban
Corporal Punishment
In 1979 Swedish Parliament voted to prohibit the
"right" of parents to chastise their children. Other Nordic nations,
including Norway, Finland, Iceland and Greenland enacted similar legislation.
The result? Less crime.
"In a free democracy we use words to educate, not blows, not violence.
We talk to people. We do not yell at them, nor do we humiliate,
beat, drug or imprison them. If we can't convince our children with words
we will NEVER convince them with violence."
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