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  • #31
    Re: Montessori schooling

    Originally posted by DanS
    Has anybody here atteneded a Montessori school? Have sons/daughters in Montessori? Nieces/nephews/friends? What are your impressions?
    My pre-school wasn't technically Montessori, but it effectively was. I don't remember much of it, but the result going into 1st grade (skipped K) was pretty good. (Where it went from there, we won't discuss.)

    There's a proper Montessori school here that's mostly used by university faculty. The people I've talked to have all been very impressed, which is not a simple feat for that group. You're as capable of looking up the stats as I am, but the outcomes seem to be worth it if you have the money.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by onodera
      I attended such school for the first 1.5 years of my education. I, too, remember the sandpaper letters and some other stuff, but I don't know how beneficial the whole thing was to me. I don't notice any difference. Maybe it's because it was a Russian school.
      Was this during the Soviet days? Is it your perception that there are/were many such schools in Russia?
      Last edited by DanS; December 30, 2007, 19:36.
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      • #33
        Re: Re: Montessori schooling

        Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
        There's a proper Montessori school here that's mostly used by university faculty. The people I've talked to have all been very impressed, which is not a simple feat for that group.
        I think it must be popular among much of higher education in the US. As an example, both Sergey Brin (Maryland) and Larry Page (Michigan) did Montessori. All four parents are profs/Ph.D.s. They would have gone through it pretty near its reintroduction into the US.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #34
          I have a friend that went through Montessori, he liked his experience with it as well. I think it is a step in the right direction and it is good to hear DC is getting involved (though I'm worried that they'll squeeze all the value out of it with regulation and standards).

          The best style however is Sudbury Valley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_model

          There is one in PG county, the Fairhaven School. I have gone to visit it and one day I hope to send my kids there (once, of course, I have kids): http://www.fairhavenschool.com

          I attended an international education reform conference and they described the various models as a continuum that starts with Montessori and goes to Sudbury Valley. I'm the radical of course, so Montessori doesn't go far enough, but it is on the right track.
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          • #35
            What's so bad about being stuffed with Catholic doctrine?
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            • #36
              --"Has anybody here atteneded a Montessori school?"

              I was in a Montessori-based private school from 3rd through 6th grade. It was small-town USA, so it wasn't on a large scale, and wouldn't have been even if it was the public school.

              Before that I was in both Catholic schools and a non-Montessori private school, as well as an extremely brief stint in public school (my parents were... less than impressed with the teacher). After it I was in public schools. I can definitely say the Montessori based one was the best, and by a long shot.

              --"What is Montessori methods?"

              As usual, Wikipedia has a decent summary ^_^ Can't comment on the pre-school and so forth level stuff.

              --"but it seems to me that their existence reflects the anxiety of ambitious parents more than anything else."

              Don't know about that. Given the rising number of college entrants who need remedial math and reading courses despite high school diplomas, there's quite likely something else involved.

              --"Any idea why 3/5 of these schools are in the US?"

              It's an interesting question, but I don't know enough about ratios of non-government schools in other countries. The one I went to certainly wasn't big, only three or four teachers. Ease of startup (at least in certain areas of the US) might encourage a lot of small-scale ones.

              --"The best style however is Sudbury Valley"

              Could be interesting, but since I don't have or plan to have kids, I haven't exactly been keeping up with K-12 education ^_^

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
                What's so bad about being stuffed with Catholic doctrine?
                Is that what the priests tell the altar boys it's called now?



                Walked into that one, Ben.
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                • #38
                  Originally posted by Wraith

                  Don't know about that. Given the rising number of college entrants who need remedial math and reading courses despite high school diplomas, there's quite likely something else involved.
                  It's called misguided 60s liberalism.
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                  • #39
                    Is that what the priests tell the altar boys it's called now?
                    Every comedian needs a straight man. That phrase was just too good to pass up.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


                      Every comedian needs a straight man. That phrase was just too good to pass up.
                      Ben
                      Only feebs vote.

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
                        What's so bad about being stuffed with Catholic doctrine?
                        The cannibalism.

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                        • #42
                          My older brothers and I went to Montessori before elementary school. I remember nothing about it, but I attribute my mind-boggling intelligence to it.

                          Both of my siblings did, however, get into the magnet program at Blair High School. You can't really say that one caused the other, of course, but Montessori might still have something to do with the relatively high level of intelligence present in my parents' children.
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Lorizael
                            My older brothers and I went to Montessori before elementary school. I remember nothing about it, but I attribute my mind-boggling intelligence to it.

                            Both of my siblings did, however, get into the magnet program at Blair High School. You can't really say that one caused the other, of course, but Montessori might still have something to do with the relatively high level of intelligence present in my parents' children.
                            From Wiki:

                            "Dr. Montessori developed what became known as "The Montessori Method" as an outgrowth of her post-graduate research into the intellectual development of children with mental retardation. Building on the work of French physicians Jean Itard and Edouard Seguin, she attempted to build an environment for the scientific study of children with various sorts of physical and mental disabilities."

                            No offence intended, I just found it funny.
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                            • #44
                              What's that in your signature?
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                              • #45
                                Song lyrics.

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