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Is this method of teaching very young children a corruption of the Montressori method?

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Is this method of teaching very young children a corruption of the Montressori method?

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It involves leading young kids into spiritual or outright religious engagement, according to an article in the Boston Globe: Snug as a waistcoat, the tiny room nevertheless accommodates the six children splayed in a crescent of toddler chairs. Sitting cross-legged on the floor, their teacher, the Rev. Joyce Scherer-Hoock, launches into the day’s lesson, the parable of the Good Shepherd. The children, most of them 4 years old, will get a hands-on introduction to the biblical story. Not that they will herd sheep through the vestry. But Peabody’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church runs a Montessori Sunday school, following the same educational philosophy as that of the secular schools founded by early 20th-century educator Maria Montessori. Read the full Globe article here…

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