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I worked at a montessori school for five years.
The thing about montessori is that is is not for everyone. I mean, some children need direction and need to be told what to do. Other children work on their own, and this is bascially what montessori is all about. You have several children with different ages working in the same classroom. This teaches the older kids to be like role models to the younger ones. They actually often teach, and give them lessons. It is sort of a sense of independence. Of course, not anyone can give another child a lesson, the teachers decides that.
Also, it is not like in public school where everyone in your class is learning the same thing you are. Some children learn faster than others. This allows the children that learn faster to get more advanced and not have to wait for others, while the other children can work at their pace, and if they need more time on something, they have it and have to move on to the next thing because the other students are ready.
It gives children more choices and more independence for themselves. That is why it is really not for everyone. However most of the children at the school I worked at were very well advanced for their age, and they were about 1-2 years ahead.
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