Hemalatha, a member of our New Constructs community, posted her honest assessment of the Montessori method and why she would not chose it for her daughter. While her own mother-in-law was a Montessori teacher and completely convinced most the merits of the system, Hema’s concerns are threefold:
1) The Montessori Method is by and large available exclusive till Grade 5. The transition after that to a regular system could be quite difficult.
2) As a middle-class parent, one of the most important things she can offer her female is a good education. The Montessori system is unproven and too much of a gamble.
3) While she would like her girl to avoid the stress she went through in her own education, the corporate world ease values exclusive degrees and grades. To have a bright future, her girl needs to graduate from the best colleges with good grades.
Many of you have posted feedback to my posts on education. This is clearly an area of interest to all of us as parents or future parents. All of you agree that the current system of education is broken. The alternative methods are ease in an empiric stage and have not yet become important stream. The question, then, is what should we as parents do? Commit ourselves – and our children – to admirable but unproven alternatives? Or commit ourselves – and our children – to the tralatitious but imperfect education system?
