My introduction to the complexity of the world began in 1963. As a sophomore in college, I attended at the first experimental “University of the Seven Seas” (U7S); four months traveling through Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, with famous professors from all over the world, welcomed by heads of government, the pope, the prime minister of Malaysia, and more.
It was a voyage that changed, and focuses, my life. Students were required to study European and Asian history and languages, and then choose courses aligned with our interests, which for me included medicine, philosophy, comparative religions, art and architecture, and the sociology of family structure. As a pre-med students I was included to field trips to hospitals, slums, orphanages, and humanitarian projects. It left me with severe culture shock upon returning home, and a search for meaning. One day during this traumatic time, I asked my father, a physicist who had headed a lab at the Manhattan Project in Oakridge, Tennessee during WWII, “What is the meaning of life?”
His response was, “If I can help life be better for one person each day, my life is worth living.” I still thinks of this often.
In graduate school in philosophy my first child began attending an AMI Montessori school in San Francisco that opened the door to a way to help the world. I have not looked back. I hope that the words shared in my books, while consulting and speaking, and in this blog, help at least one person each day.
One of her favorite quotes of Montessori:
I live in heaven. My home is a sphere that travels around the sun.
It is called ‘Earth’.
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