Re:Building a Functional One-Party Democracy (2019)
by em-bee on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:06AM
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the argument that i keep hearing is that school was designed to create obedient factory workers.
montessori has all the things you liked above and more.
cleaning up after yourself, and serving food, working with various household tools are apart of the curriculum. they are not just chores, but already in kindergarten kids are learning these things playfully.
kindergarten age kids are interested in the adult world, so for them, cutting fruit is an interesting activity just like learning to count.
i can trust our kids with sharp knives and scissors, because they learnt how to handle them.
i don't know about the older levels, but cleaning up the classroom would be a natural continuation of kids cleaning up after themselves.
montessori has all the things you liked above and more.
cleaning up after yourself, and serving food, working with various household tools are apart of the curriculum. they are not just chores, but already in kindergarten kids are learning these things playfully.
kindergarten age kids are interested in the adult world, so for them, cutting fruit is an interesting activity just like learning to count. i can trust our kids with sharp knives and scissors, because they learnt how to handle them.
i don't know about the older levels, but cleaning up the classroom would be a natural continuation of kids cleaning up after themselves.