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VO LU M E X V I V, N U M B E R 10 A bi-weekly publication of The Post Oak School
POST Celebrating 50 years of The Post Oak School
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T H E F U T U R E OF E DUC AT ION by John Long, Head of School
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Spontaneous, curiosity-filled exploration happens at all levels of a Montessori education.
he next Steve Jobs” reads the cover of Wired magazine’s November issue beside a photo of Mexican student Paloma Noyola Bueno, a fifth grader who had the highest scores on a recent national exam. Her school “has captured the attention of the nation thanks to the remarkable, groundbreaking teaching methodology of Paloma’s
teacher Sergio Juarez Correa.” At the heart of his method is this idea: “ knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration.” Last week Forbes magazine picked up that story. In fact, both magazines also continued on page 2