> I mean, that's pretty much the entire point of Montessori school and various "lifestyle of learning" types of educational programs

> Kids are a lot more resilient than people give them credit for, and the most sure-fire way to make kids hate learning is to force them to do it.

We dropped Montessori precisely because they don't force kids to learn.

My mom is a teacher.

We visited over christmas when our eldest was in 2nd year in Montessori. Mom evaluated our child and told use that she was 1+ behind in development. Our child was uninterested in learning and the teachers were not "forcing" her to learn.

When we visited