An antidote to the education testing craze...

Finally, an education story that rings true to my experience. Thank you to my Montessori school teachers, who to this day continue to make a positive difference in my life. Take away message:

"The economists don’t pretend to know the exact causes. But it’s not hard to come up with plausible guesses. Good early education can impart skills that last a lifetime — patience, discipline, manners, perseverance. The tests that 5-year-olds take may pick up these skills, even if later multiple-choice tests do not."

Patience, discipline, manners, perseverance. All traits learned early. All traits that make more of a difference in the working world than anything measured on a multiple choice test.