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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 594500" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Goodness! Reading all this makes me realize how fortunate I was with the primary school I went to.</p><p></p><p>It was a very small experimental school, intended for children who didn't really fit well in the mainstream school system. We had a lot of dyslexic children, a lot of gifted ones, and a few aspies too (I'm sure now, although none of us had heard of Aspergers back then.) It was based on the Montessori method, and run by two education profs who'd moved from the U.S. to Canada in the 1950s.</p><p></p><p>The basic principle was to let the children guide their own education. Yes, we had to meet the minimum provincial requirements for each subject, but after that it was really up to us what we wanted to do. My English teacher used to write the day's requirements on the blackboard at the beginning of the school day, and then just let us have at it. As long as we got through whatever was on the blackboard, and anything else we tackled was English-related, we had free rein. This is how I ended up reading Romeo and Juliet in Gr 3. The school librarian found a dusty old Complete Works of Shakespeare for me and let me loose.</p><p></p><p>Our science teacher bought me a dissecting kit when I was about 7 or 8, and used to bring me specimens to work on: squid, sundry fish, a calf's heart, and one day she brought a placenta in a bucket. Spread it right out on the lab table and let me pick at it. I don't think schools would be able to do such things nowadays, but I thrived in that environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 594500, member: 3907"] Goodness! Reading all this makes me realize how fortunate I was with the primary school I went to. It was a very small experimental school, intended for children who didn't really fit well in the mainstream school system. We had a lot of dyslexic children, a lot of gifted ones, and a few aspies too (I'm sure now, although none of us had heard of Aspergers back then.) It was based on the Montessori method, and run by two education profs who'd moved from the U.S. to Canada in the 1950s. The basic principle was to let the children guide their own education. Yes, we had to meet the minimum provincial requirements for each subject, but after that it was really up to us what we wanted to do. My English teacher used to write the day's requirements on the blackboard at the beginning of the school day, and then just let us have at it. As long as we got through whatever was on the blackboard, and anything else we tackled was English-related, we had free rein. This is how I ended up reading Romeo and Juliet in Gr 3. The school librarian found a dusty old Complete Works of Shakespeare for me and let me loose. Our science teacher bought me a dissecting kit when I was about 7 or 8, and used to bring me specimens to work on: squid, sundry fish, a calf's heart, and one day she brought a placenta in a bucket. Spread it right out on the lab table and let me pick at it. I don't think schools would be able to do such things nowadays, but I thrived in that environment. [/QUOTE]
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