en.wikipedia.org — The Montessori method is an educational method for children, based on theories of child development originated by Italian educator Maria Montessori in the late 19th and early 20th century.Both Sergey Brin and Larry Page were successful products of this system.
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drmonkeyloveDec 5, 2007
My pizza is made with the Pizza Hut method, where you just take a s**t ton of cheese and throw it on dough. There might be sauce too. It's hard to tell under the pound of cheese.
demiurgencyDec 5, 2007
Dugg for goat nipples.
stupidliberalDec 5, 2007
So you couldn't get into Florida? That doesn't inspire me to send my kids to a Montessori school
aikimoeDec 5, 2007
Four years of Montessori, eight years of public school.
maxxowensDec 5, 2007
I laugh every time this comes up.... The Montessori "fad" seems to pop up every 5 years or so, gain some traction, then fade away again. There are two main problems with Montessori style:1. It assumes that children want to learn. 2. It assumes that the teachers are smarter than the students.Example: I was in a Montessori System for 3 1/2 years. At the end of year 3 my mom, a teacher in a traditional school, started to get concerned about my reading level. She took me to her school to get an intelligence test, because she not sure if it was me or the school that was the problem. The results put me in the 99th percentile 135+ IQ, yet my reading level was 2 years behind where it should be? What could be wrong? After that day I had "friends" come to school with me to observe my day to day scholastic activities. Well it turns out I had "reworked" my Montessori schedule to include only math and recesses. Not sure why I had math in there? I probably could have gotten away with all recesses all day. Without the structure of traditional schooling I was able to manipulate my educational track to what I wanted, in this case recess... In short Montessori works in the exact opposite way you would believe. It's the conformist amongst us that will thrive in the "no rules" environment. They will do as the pack does. The individualist on the other hand will do what they want do regardless of others and their education will suffer because of it.
nalf38Dec 5, 2007
Look--I'm sure you're very nice and probably very intelligent, too, but I have to say that I think your comment is one-sided and elitist. First of all, in my "adult world," all of my problems are solved creatively, so your implication that children are infinitely more creative than adults sounds like it's coming from the perspective of someone who is still in high school. If you believe that all normal kids are motivated to learn, then you obviously don't have children. Pop out a few, and then we'll talk. If by "motivation to learn" you mean continually trying to figure out how to hit your sister without getting in trouble, then yes, all children are motivated to learn. "Jamming knowledge down their throat"...Oy. Expecting kids to read at a certain level by a certain age hardly qualifies as jamming. The implication in Montessori, which is that the child will eventually get to it at their own pace with very subtle direction from a teacher/guide, simply doesn't work for everyone.I can't imagine how many circuits you'd blow if your child came home and said "I don't feel like learning to read, and I don't have to, because I go to a montessori school, and IT'S MY CHOICE." Now THAT'S a self-directed child. I think it can be persuasively argued that it's actually a sheep/herd mentality that makes a successful Montessori student, rather than the other way around.
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pandaman42Feb 17, 2009
Actually in an interview with Barbara Walters on TV, Brin & Page said they ascribe a large part of their success to the fact that they went to Montessori schools.Montessori spam indeed!
pandaman42Feb 17, 2009
Well Maxx, you call a system of education that has been around mroe than 100 years a fad? Doesn't look like anyone will change your mind. The problem (as someone mentioned earlier) is that anyone can call their school a Montessori school without it having qualified teachers.To dis the system because of one anecdotal experience (I know - it's all you have) does not make sense. Read what she wrote, observe a different school.In your "2 main problems" above the first is patently true. Children are born curious and want to learn. What do they want to learn? What they are interested in. The Montessori teacher's job is to show how they need basic tools (mathematics, literature etc.) in order to learn about what they like. The second "problem" is definitely not what Montessori does. It is not an adult delivered curriculum (unlike traditional schools) so why do you think it assumes adults are smarter than students? That's the traditional school model.Montessori works.
topvnleserSep 13, 2009
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pancake1Jan 14, 2012
"products of this system" - I do not think it wise to dehumanize people through the use of such a description. This comment is referring to the given definition at the top of this page.