Samantha Watkins ✓
@_samantha_joy · 📖 Ashby-de-la-zouch · joined 06 May 2022
Former public school teacher, now a Montessori advocate; step-mom x2, mom x1; here to make friends and build a golden age for education;
15 612Followers
1 004Following
4 793Posts total
5.5MViews on collected posts
Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views838this account964median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.36%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.23%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 838 | 964 | 0.87× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.36% | 3.25% | 1.65× |
| Engagement rate | 2.23% | 2.01% | 1.11× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.03%15 Dec
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.
What the audience does
Likes92.2%35 682 in total
Reposts2.3%899 in total
Replies0.2%64 in total
Quotes0.2%69 in total
Bookmarks5.2%2 007 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
Latest posts
>We don’t need school anymore. Why bother? Kids can just ask AI anything they need to know.
The most damning indictment of conventional education methods is that this view has any sway.
Every inch of your soul should rebel at the thought of leading a knowledge-light life.
635 views · 6 likes
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30 Aug 2026
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for friends: I'm taking a 40-day or so social media pause (at minimum) and I'll see you on the other side!
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21 Aug 2026
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my baby is the most smiley baby. she's so smiley that if she's fussing and then I interact with her she can't help but smile back at me ... even while she's still scowling. it's the weirdest and most charming facial expression I've ever seen.
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19 Aug 2026
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a lot of people seem to view evolution as a try-hard, hyper-optimizer for success, A+ student ... but evolution is more like a mediocre, good enough to pass and get mom off your back, C student.
a global PPd rate of ~17% seems solidly in the territory of a C student.
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18 Aug 2026
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@_samantha_joy I started off as a Montessori student. It established many of my routines.
2 of which hold super true to this day:
1: If I am self directed and provided resources, miracles can happen.
2: If I am forced to conform, I will rebel with all of my ability.
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15 Dec 2024
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The true normal child was one who:
> focuses
> makes choices
> persists and follows through
> is self-controlled and responsible
> is confident, happy, a worker and achiever
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15 Dec 2024
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Montessori students outperform their peers academically, especially in language and math.
They also outperform in creativity, social skills, and executive functioning.
Above all, they're *happy* They love learning and love the experience of growing up.
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15 Dec 2024
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But Montessori doesn't select for or create geniuses.
In fact, Montessori doesn't credit her approach for the results at all.
She credits the child. It is the child, finally unfettered, who achieves these outcomes.
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15 Dec 2024
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What Montessori's approach reveals is how *low* our expectations for children usually are and how much we unwittingly hold them back.
But this isn't fate. We can start down a new path.
We know now just how capable a normal child can be.
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15 Dec 2024
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Montessori concluded that all the "normal" traits of childhood were actually aberrations.
Whether a child was characteristically defiant, submissive, apathetic or hyperactive—her traits were the result of an inadequate environment and misunderstandings of adults.
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15 Dec 2024
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Even today, the average age for first reading is 6 or 7.
To consistently teach 3 and 4 year olds to read?
That's unheard of—and it immediately launched Montessori into worldwide fame.
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15 Dec 2024
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By the third year of Children's House, we tend to see an "explosion" of literacy.
The child has built a strong foundation with intentional materials and has had freedom to focus and to work at her own pace.
She has been prepared!
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15 Dec 2024
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Once it all starts to click into place, the child advances quickly.
A Montessori kindergartner may jump from laboriously sounding out words to reading chapter books at a 2nd and 3rd grade level in a matter of weeks.
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15 Dec 2024
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At the time, everyone thought it was impossible to teach children younger than ~6 to read.
Indeed, literacy instruction was so onerous and so miserable it was in vogue to think instruction should be pushed out even further—to 8, 9, or 10 years old.
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15 Dec 2024
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There are boundaries and limits, of course, especially for anything disruptive, dangerous, or distracting.
A Montessori teacher is responsible for observing a child, recognizing their readiness, and inspiring them to work with materials across the curriculum.
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15 Dec 2024
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4. Spontaneous literacy
After being introduced to phonetic sounds and matching them with their symbols, 3yo & 4yo children repeatedly practice on their own.
Without warning, they independently begin, first to write, and then to read independently. https://t.co/iY0sXQcS3s
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15 Dec 2024
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In Montessori, children have tremendous freedom.
To move freely, to work at a table or on the floor with a rug.
To choose to work alone or in a small group.
To work with a material for a couple minutes or an hour.
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15 Dec 2024
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While the teacher interpreted this as proof of a child's bad nature, a "mischievous, thieving instinct", Montessori saw something different.
She saw children who had been so prepared with the materials that they were now capable of independence in using them.
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15 Dec 2024
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Eventually, Montessori made all materials accessible on low shelves.
Once the teacher introduces a material to a child, he is free to independently select it and work with it anytime he wants. https://t.co/oreY6jegBO
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15 Dec 2024
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3. Freedom sans chaos
Originally, all materials were kept locked away in a cupboard & the children had to ask permission to access them.
One day, the teacher didn't show up & the cupboard had been left unlocked.
Rather than causing mayhem, the kids got right to work.
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15 Dec 2024
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These materials are intentionally designed to:
>inspire focus
>be used independently
>build on one another in a progression
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15 Dec 2024
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These materials take concepts and work once thought inaccessible or uninteresting to a child, and make them exciting, enriching, and attainable.
A Montessori school doesn't isolate the child from life, it invites children in *at their level* https://t.co/c3zT2kfBPA
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15 Dec 2024
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Eventually, Montessori refined the materials in her classroom to only include the ones that children chose to engage with & which inspired their deep focus.
They're organized into a few broad categories:
>Practical Life
>Sensorial
>Language
>Math
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15 Dec 2024
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Children have a profound ability to get into a state of flow.
The world drops away, and they can work for long periods without distraction.
But this is *only* true if they're given something to do that satisfies their developmental needs...which leads to:
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15 Dec 2024
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And most surprising of all: it was real work that attracted young children the most. Things like:
>cooking
>washing dishes
>cleaning up spills
>polishing silverware
The children only chose to play with toys when there was nothing better to do. https://t.co/6LZQ9YlL
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15 Dec 2024
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2. Work over play
In the beginning, Montessori's classroom contained traditional toys alongside learning materials.
But as the children settled into the class, the toys gathered dust on the shelf and the learning materials grew worn from use.
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15 Dec 2024
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But if any place could display the raw potential and abilities of children, a school in the slums was it.
No literate and educated parents to hide behind, no charismatic teacher driving success, no money to explain it, no culture of learning or discipline.
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15 Dec 2024
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1. Profound concentration
Montessori saw a 3yo focusing on the knobbed cylinder activity.
Despite distractions—kids singing and dancing, being picked up and moved across the room—the 3yo didn't waver.
The child repeated the activity over 3 dozen times without pause. https:/
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15 Dec 2024
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It wasn't isolated. Montessori observed how the child's ability to concentrate expanded over time, from:
>babies observing their parents as they spoke
>toddlers washing windows for a half hour
>older kids embarking on ambitious projects for weeks/months
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15 Dec 2024
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So what was the evidence she found?
What led Montessori to conclude that she and every parent and teacher across thousands of years had been wrong about children?
Here are 4 of the most significant discoveries:
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15 Dec 2024
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