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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are butting heads because there’s a distinction between the montessori purists and the Montessori inspired.  Some of them are really cultish and you need to figure out how much flex they have.  I suggested uphread questions about cursive and the work cycle as good proxies, but the play pretend question is also a good one.  
I agree with PP that in a good Montessori classroom, there is a lot of collaboration, often between older/younger kids.[/quote]

I agree with about half of this but my very cultish Montessori school values free time and play and imagination and all that kid stuff.

BTW, that ‘blocks’ thing that people are talking about isn’t blocks as you know it — it’s the first part of the Montessori math curriculum. And yeah, they are supposed to do a specific thing with them. However, there are other blocks that can be ‘played with’ in the most free form way. You can’t ‘play’ with pink tower or brown stairs blocks, but you can play with other blocks — just like kids at traditional school can’t ‘play’ randomly with, like, compasses or whatever.[/quote]

I just don’t understand the benefit of it. Play based preschools teach all the same concepts, but without all that rigidity. [/quote]

It doesn’t feel rigid to me, and play based has its own curriculum too. (Draw the picture of how you’ll play with this doll, then go do it, then write about it, etc etc etc). Curricula by design have structure. Montessori is just one approach.

The benefit of any program is what it is. I don’t know whether Montessori is ‘the best’ (I assume no? But I wouldn’t even know how to measure that) but the particular school my kids go to is amazing and it’s Montessori and I watch my 5 year old doing all sorts of cool things. He’s probably be fine anywhere, but he and we all love his school. From reading this thread, there are a lot of misconceptions based on some of the terminology and I just feel like addressing those.[/quote]

It’s not the terminology. Read some of the posts on here. They sound cultish. “School is for work, not goofing around.” Does that sound like a normal thing to say about a preschool?[/quote]

No, and I wouldn’t send my kid to a school that espouses quotes like that. But that sounds more to me like a disgruntled parent’s interpretation of what he saw, not what the school would actually say.

‘Play is the work of the child.’ Says it all, I think. And that’s a real quote.[/quote]

But Montessori schools aren’t play-based, so that makes no sense as a quote associated with Montessori schools.[/quote]

? It's a direct Maria Montessori quote. [/quote]

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