Thank you for creating this space, Andrew. I think it's just what we all need at this moment in education, and the world! I coached soccer for more than 35 years (and, yes, this is one important form of youth education!), taught high social studies for more than 20 years in the western suburbs of Chicago (after having practiced law for almost 20 years), and, now, in "retirement", I am finally free from the largely suffocating structures of youth sports and public education to seek out new ways that might help to create whole new intellectual and spiritual foundations for education to actually happen, and begin to move forward. I'm open and receptive to learning about Montessori and other alternatives as they continue to develop and evolve, and I've become quite involved in learning about the paradigm-shifting work that has been done for more than 50 years, since the early 1970s, by the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences (FUNDAEC), a Colombian organization whose new approaches toward development are now spreading throughout the world. For the past several years, I have been involved in the facilitation of learning about this new paradigm for education through one of FUNDAEC's foundational texts for the training of teachers, "Intellectual Preparation for Social Action." For those who would like to know more, here is a link to the FUNDAEC website: https://fundaec.org/en/ ... Please feel free to contact me with any questions!