![]() ![]() Humanity can evolve healthily only at a given rate. The actions of parents represent the checks and balances of nature’s gestation control. Nature has her own gestation rates for evolutionary development. Motivated entirely by love, but also by fear for the futures of the children they love, parents, in their ignorance, act as though they know all the answers and curtail the spontaneous exploratory acts of their children, lest the children make “mistakes.” But genius does its own thinking it has confidence in its own exploratory findings, in its own intuitions, in the knowledge gained from its own mistakes. ‘People should not make mistakes’ they mistakenly say. 9999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently, de-geniused by grown-ups… All those witnessing the errors of others proclaim that they (the witnesses) could have prevented those errors had they only been consulted. Referring to the battle between AMI and AMS, Kluchman says, ‘The argument is about the right religion. People here see it (Montessori) as the closest thing to home without sending their kids to private school,’ she says. ‘Our phones have been ringing daily because of Proposition 2 1/2. ’ The lack of AMI or AMS accreditation hasn't stopped interested parents, Kluchman says. ![]() ![]() ‘The same goes for AMI or AMS.’ Kluchman adds that the AMI or AMS accreditation ‘is like any rating system: there is a lot that goes along with it that we don't get any benefit from. ‘We are an independent school because we don't need the extra red tape," says Headmistress Betsy Klutchman, ‘Though all of our teachers are AMI-trained, and two of them were trained under Mario Montessori in Holland, we still don't happen to fit the exact requirements for AMI accreditation.’ ‘There are good independent schools and bad ones,’ says Kluchman. Pincushion, with 48 students enrolled, grew out of another independent school in nearby Ashland, and recently has helped to open two new schools in the area. “One example is the Pincushion Montessori School in Natick. ![]()
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