tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23751890.post4832231450915256353..comments2024-01-28T09:27:20.490-06:00Comments on Century of the Common Iowan: Obama's Promise to Early Childhood Educationnoneed4thneedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722983760373724246noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23751890.post-10009733929878844922009-02-26T17:28:00.000-06:002009-02-26T17:28:00.000-06:00It is important to look at how we can fix early ch...It is important to look at how we can fix early childhood education. Maria Montessori methodology works and any preschool that is having a positive effect on how children learn use Montessori methodology whether they are aware of it or not. <BR/><BR/>Child-centered education is a key component in relation to how we can best serve a child, and nourish what they already naturally have, a love for learning. <BR/><BR/> We put so much pressure on children to read at a certain age and write at a certain age but forget the natural development of human beings.<BR/><BR/>We all learned to walk and talk without being taught. The wide spectrum of those accomplishments from 6 months to 16 months should inform us why it is so wrong to be pushing young children to all learn at the same rate once they enter school. <BR/><BR/> Look at child-centered education and the success rate in comparison to the "factory"system we have now. The factory system was used at the turn of the 20th century not to educate children but to get them to read as quickly as possible so they could then work at a factory. It goes beyond words we still use this system in most schools today.<BR/> <BR/>Some of the greatest minds in history walked late, talked late and read late. Today they would have been quickly labeled poor students and the course of their life would have been radically different.<BR/><BR/>When are we going to see we need to change the way we educate children and clearly acknoweledge child-centered education is not alternative education but the only alternative if we are going<BR/>to do right by our children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com