- Despite being around for hundred years there's not really much study to prove the efficacy of the Montessori method. There's one solid study where they picked children at random from a lottery that had decent results but even there the long term impact wasn't studied and it has since not been replicated. ---- "Lillard found that the children who went to the Montessori school tended to have better literacy, numeracy, executive function and social skills, compared to those who had attended the other schools. And at age 12, they showed better story-telling abilities. " - [Link](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230131-does-the-montessori-method-actually-work)