Maria Montessori: Answer to Common Core?
She was a feminist from the start, but so delicately feminine as to disarm, so charismatic as to enchant—without mincing words. To the theories of eminent male thinkers concluding that women were incapable, infantile, physiologically weak, she said, “‘It is certainly true that men lose their minds over women.’ Attempting to prove the absurdity of the feminist position, they had ended up making themselves ridiculous.”[1]
We ended up at a public school. I think we just lucked out with an amazing non-nonsense teacher and principal. The teacher comes dressed in good clothes but clearly dressed for the hard work of teaching 5-6 y/os. Her husband was a marine and is now a police officer. I get the idea that both of them have heard a lot of bogus excuses and know how to handle them. My kids loves her and the school. Next year we could be in a completely difference situation. There's no substitute for staying on top of it.
Can an education system be of any worth if it does not promote self-discipline?