What is Montessori ?

In agreement with Dr Montessori’s finding, educational research has also confirmed that the early years are the most important of the child’s life.

"There are many who hold, as I do, that the most important part of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.  For that is the time when a man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed.  But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers" 
Maria Montessori, the Absorbent Mind.

The key elements of the Montessori Method are: Self education, individual directions, the didactic materials, a favorable environment and the trained directress (teacher).

"Scientific observation has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.  the task of the teacher becomes that of preparing a series of motives of cultural activities spread over a specially prepared environment, and then refraining from obtrusive interference.  Human teachers can only help the great work that is being done, as servant help the master.  Doing so, they will be witnesses to the unfolding of the human soul and to the rising of a New Man who will not be a victim of events, but will have the clarity of vision to direct and shape the future of human society" 
Maria Montessori, Education for a New World.

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"The training of the teacher who is to help life something far more than a learning of ideas.  It includes the training of character;  it is a preparation of the spirit"  Maria Montessori (Source: UMA)