Why Montessori

Montessori Philosophy

The Montessori Method is a system of education that is a philosophy of child development and a guide for promoting such growth. It involves to catering to the child's developmental needs for freedom within limits in a carefully prepared environment that provides exposure to materials and experiences. Through interactions within the environment, the child develops intelligence as well as physical and psychological abilities. It is designed to take full advantage of the child's desire to learn and their unique ability to develop their own capabilities.

The main premises of Montessori education are :

• Children are to be respected as different from adults and as individuals who differ from each other. 

• Children create themselves through purposeful activity.

• The child possesses an unusual sensitivity and intellectual ability to absorb and learn from his environment that is unlike those of the adult both in quality and capacity. 

• The most important years of a child's growth are the first six years of life when unconscious learning is gradually brought to the conscious level.

The child has a deep love and need for purposeful work. He works, however, not as an adult for completion of a job, but for the sake of an activity itself. This activity enables him to accomplish his most important goal: the development of himself - his mental, physical and cognitive powers.