it has pros and cons, could be generally considered superior to the methods with which we are familiar, but is otherwise an archaic teaching system with
serious drawbacks which we would want to evolve away from.
In bluntly honest, welcome to your matrix terms, the techaings methods employed in almost all schools are from 1700. Montessori is from 1850.
REFORM General
Curiosity drives learning if it is allowed to do so and not shut down.
Curiosity is shut down via the current system, creating the ADD disorder sudden appearance on the charts. One half of ADD is a person who can’t pay attention. The other half is a boring culture, delivery of information modus
operandi.
Curiosity driven learning involves more brain area participation. If a person doesn’t really like their experience, the subconscious mind edits it and doesn’t learn from it. Using curiosity driven learning potentially accelerates the learning curve such that it would not be unreasonable for the society of the future to expect the equivalent of a multiple PhD education from High School.
The largest obstacle to curiosity driven learning is the current student to teacher ratio. Curiosity driven learning requires a personal curriculum to be developed per child, an enormous labor process for most teachers. The cure is to use peer tutoring, and older child tutoring in conjunction with professional testers. Teachers are being asked do two different jobs, Teaching and Testing. Testing is incredibly underutilized. How can you know what a child is ready to learn if you have not learned from them who they are and what they know already?
The second largest obstacle is a lazy educational system which must be corrected
and re-educated itself. The educational paradigm being taught for use is not the one which is being taught in reform education psychology and sociology classes.
The first battery of tests should be; IQ tests, aptitude tests, Sanity tests, Type of intelligence per intelligence tests, learning style tests, performance tests, peer skills tests, comprehensive topical subject tests, and in general, any test which can be used to effectively appraise an individual child for the purposes of creating for that child a personalized curriculum.
The topics of psychology, sociology, conversational logic, and ethics should be added to the current curriculum for all Middle School (ages 12 to 14 or grades 6 thru 8) and High Schools
Personality differences including learning styles and Types of intelligence
Can mean that people learn in very different ways. Groups of students should be organized without regard so much to age as to learning style. A class full of visual
Learners from 3 age groups is better than a class full of kinesthetic learners and visual learners who find each other distracting and each others interactions with the teacher bizarre. Throw in some introverts and some extroverts and a speed-reader or two, and a teachers modus operandi cannot hope to reach well the different types of Students that s/he is teaching.
10. Our society is composed of a population which is by about 50 percent Anti-intellectual. (As part of a deep and long term attempt at denial of science facts)
The sheeple will crucify the nerds, that’s the end result of pack psychology and anti-intellectualist mob events. Both alleged “Sides” in the great orchestrated argument between left and right are delusional dogmatist simple minded over simplified versions of reality, oversimplified problem solving process, and thus oversimplified and therefore
Usually counterproductive pseudo solutions. Polarity does not contain sanity, both sides are polarized via each other, but the line that connects those two dots at no point in time Ever gets around to the big picture or the whole truth. Evolution and mother nature will on the other hand favor the nerds.
Education reform;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_reform
www1.worldbank.org/education/globaleducationreform/
www.education-reform.net/
dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Education/Education_Reform/
Curiousity driven Learning
www.csl.sony.fr/~py/developmentalRobotics.htm
www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html
www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/Curiosity.asp
www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/students/explore.htm
Types of Intelligence;
www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/ubnrp/intelligence05/Mtypes.html
www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_intelligences
Learning Styles;
www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Learning_Styles.html
www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html
www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
www.funderstanding.com/learning_styles.cfm
Student Teacher Ratio:
www.edspresso.com/?OVRAW=education%20reform%20student%20teacher%20ratio&OVKEY=education%20reform&OVMTC=advanced
www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=section&pSectionID=15&cSectionID=97
www.dreamagic.com/jesse/isedurat.html
Anti Intellectualism;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
chronicle.com/free/v47/i15/15b00701.htm
www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170
www.csmonitor.com/2003/0121/p17s02-lehl.html
mtprof.msun.edu/Spr1997/TROUT-ST.html
www.wayofthemind.org/2006/07/26/anti-intellectualism/
urresearch.rochester.edu/retrieve/6552/Anti-Intellectualism.pdf
www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/02/04/reorganization_plan_calls_for_higher_student_teacher_ratios/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Maine+news 
