This is a very important question. Many educational programs and philosophies have purported to help children but after extensive research this have been proven not to be the case. Montessori education has been at the forefront of these studies and has been studied extensively over the past few years. All the research states that on […]
Whenever I hear this question I think about a scene in the movie Mean Girls. Kady, the movie’s protagonist, has been home-schooled in Africa by her anthropologist parents. Her first ‘real’ school is a public high school. At first she is shocked and confused by the rules of the school. As she says in a […]
Montessori education is based on the belief that children are individuals with their own strengths, needs, likes and learning styles. To used the latest educational catch phrases, Montessori education is ‘multi-modality, differentiated instruction. In more everyday terms, Montessorians disagree with the idea that all children learn in the exact same way at the exact same […]