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Opening the Polymath School of Morioka
On April 1, 2025, we will open the "Polymath School of Morioka."
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Phylogeny and Montessori Developmental Theory
Montessori developmental theory treats scientifically the developmental process of the first twenty-four years of human life, from age zero to twenty-four, including the prenatal p...
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Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion
Given that we currently depend entirely on the gift of radiant energy from a star, there is no better way to extract energy on Earth than plant photosynthesis[^1]. As alternatives ...
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You Cannot Understand Unless You Go to Space
The Prelude to Miyazawa Kenji's poetry collection Spring and Asura (Haru to Shura) begins like this.
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The Earth Defense System
Summer has arrived, and heat waves have become the norm. High temperatures kill many wild creatures as well. The climate is no longer one they can adapt to, and many animals and pl...
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Children's Human Rights
Children have no right to vote. Most of their rights are granted to them by adults. In Japan, children's human rights are almost entirely ignored.
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Maximizing Discoveries
One question we are often asked is: "Will children at your school reach the academic level expected of an elementary school graduate?"
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A World with Only Long Spoons
My daughter told me a story she had heard at kindergarten. In heaven, apparently, everyone uses long spoons. Spoons so long that they are useless for feeding yourself. It is a stor...
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The School of a Thousand Years from Now
The Elementary designed by us at Polymath Research is based on the theory of the Elementary program (the elementary school curriculum) for the 6–12 phase in Montessori education[^1...
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Loops of Life
An ecosystem is loops layered upon loops, and the cycling of matter and energy is the essence of life.
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The Ogres of Folktales Are Bears
There is a Japanese folktale called "Tanishi Musuko" (The Snail Son).
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Competition and Cooperation
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species holds that "all living things are weeded out through competition for resources in nature, and those that survive as a result are the ones ...
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The Mission of Species
Unlike humans, who obligate one another to pay for connecting to and using clusters of servers housed somewhere far away (the cloud), grass is under no obligation to pay the clouds...
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The Beginning of the Universe
Here is a single seed. Let's bury it in the soil and sprinkle it with water from a watering can. Then the seed begins to change. That change shows itself, stage by stage, as a geom...
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Mental Starvation Is Invisible
In Maria Montessori's book The Absorbent Mind, there is a parable about a starving man.
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How to Let Children Discover the Pythagorean Theorem for Themselves
The relationship $a^2+b^2=c^2$ between the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle is known as the Pythagorean theorem (in Japanese, also called the "theorem of three square...