Check out Maria Montessori's works, methods, and materials. My 3-year old daughter has been at a Montessori school since August last year and the progress she'

Check out Maria Montessori's works, methods, and materials. My 3-year old daughter has been at a Montessori school since August last year and the progress she's made --in manual work, counting, drawing, and reading, is incredible. Her vocabulary is now equivalent to a 5-year old. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgN0lEh5IA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgN0lEh5IA for a fun, decent exposition of what a Montessori education does by contrast with traditional schooling.