The Montessori Method

The Montessori Method is based on the fundamental premises that:

• The child has a true love and need for purposeful work
• The Child possesses unusual sensitivity and mental powers from absorbing and learning from their environment that are unlike those of the adult, both in capacity and quality
• The most important years of growth are the first seven or eight years of life when the unconscious learning is gradually differentiated on a conscious level
• Children are to be respected as different from adults and as individuals who differ from one another