The link below will take you to a manifesto written by Seth Godin. I know most of you won't read much of it (it's 30,000 words and 191 pages), but it embodies a lot of what many of you already innately know about traditional schools and why you choose Montessori, although his ideologies are not specifically about Montessori schools. Without trying to make this about anything other than what it is, I defer to Seth's own words:
"The economy has changed, probably forever. School hasn't. School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. It continues to do an excellent job at achieving this goal, but it's not a goal we need to achieve any longer. In this 30,000 word manifesto, I imagine a different set of goals and start (I hope) a discussion about how we can reach them. One thing is certain: if we keep doing what we've been doing, we're going to keep getting what we've been getting. Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo."
http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf
