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Re:Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos credit Montessori edu... by jey on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @01:33PM (#50041)
I don't understand why self-directed education stops so early. Why aren't there high schools and colleges employing Maria Montessori's profound insights?

I wish I had been lucky enough to attend a Montessori school as a kid. :-(

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Re:Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos credit Montessori edu... by nostrademons on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @01:50PM (#50048)
There are, it's just that they're fairly rare and you need to know where to look.

I went to a high school with very similar methods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Charter_Essential_School...), though to my knowledge they were developed independently. And I do think that whatever limited success I've achieved so far has been largely because of it.

On the college level, there's Hampshire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire_College.

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Re:Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos credit Montessori edu... by Jd on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @05:24PM (#50179)
The evolution of my own methods has largely been due to my own self directed education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling
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