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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nursery School: a Montessori Experience
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 11:32:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 22 11:32:32 1984
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One hundred percent agreement--you can't be too involved in your child.
Luckily our children's Montessori school is very encouraging of visiting
parents.

Let me repeat again my advice for people considering Montessori:
There are two VERY DIFFERENT schools of Montessori.  The International
Montessori Society, IMS, thinks everything Maria Montessori says is
true and everything she didn't say is wrong.  It is the IMS folks
who tend to run a classroom from the book regardless of what is going
on with the children.  The American Montessori Society, AMS, thinks
that teachers should think about their children and apply the principles
of Montessori and Piaget creatively in the classroom.  Every single
time I have heard of a bad Montessori classroom (and I get these stories
a lot since I am a bit of a Montessori buff) they have turned out to be IMS.
I don't hear as much about the AMS schools, but the two I know are both good.

It is easy to find out the affiliation of a school--both AMS and IMS schools
are proud of their affiliations.-- 
Mark Weiser 		
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