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Montessori, Waldorf, Traditional.... which way of teaching is best

Fourteen years ago, during a conversation with one of my cousins, she mentioned the Montessori system. Her enthusiasm as a mother over what her child was learning in this system was so convincing that as a mother of a one-year-old, I made up my mind that my little one would be going to a Montessori school. Then, I got an opportunity to work in a school that was AMS certified, schools certified under the American Montessori Society. Now, it was not only as a mother but also as an educator that I was able to see multiple instances where the effectiveness of this philosophy was visible to me. And guess what? I also became one of those advocates of this system who believes there is nothing better than it. Until one day, I met a mother who shared with me that her child just couldn’t connect to this way of teaching. Finally, she moved her son to a traditional school and the child bloomed immediately. It was not only her son but a few other parents too who shared this experience. Then, as a