I think a large part of the issue is that education is not holistic. I mean that in the sense that we teach every subject like it exists in a vacuum. I don't ha

I think a large part of the issue is that education is not holistic. I mean that in the sense that we teach every subject like it exists in a vacuum. I don't have a solution, but I think a Montessori education is closer to the ideal method of education than what we have no. For example, I know a lot of children complain about how they will never have to use they math they are learning when they grow up. I think it's a really valid complaint, and I know teachers recognize that issue as well because the write problems that deal with real-world situations. The things is that a lot of the real-world situations that end up being used in questions are still pretty abstract for a child. Like, money, building fences, finding the area of yards, etc. A lot of these problems could be translated to actual physical projects. For instance, put everyone in groups of four, and say "here is a little yard with toy animals in it, figure out how much string you need to go around the posts, then come up and cut off a single piece of string. The group that gets the closest wins." That being said, I think that's kind of a Montessori solution, since you'd probably want kids to choose the activity that interests them the most. It's definitely too much to ask one teacher to lesson plan 3 or 4 little activities for each thing a given group of children need to learn every day, and then monitor those activities as they are happening. Honestly, I think the majority of the education I've retained from my childhood is from things like Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and other extracurricular activities like OM/DI.