Montessori Philosophy

Montessori Day Preschool and Childcare

The Montessori Approach

The Montessori approach offers a broad vision of education as an aid to life. Montessori is designed to help children with their task of inner construction as they grow from childhood to maturity. It succeeds because it draws its principles from the natural development of the child. The inherent flexibility allows the method to adapt to the needs of the individual, regardless of the level of ability, learning style, or social maturity.

Montessori classrooms provide a prepared environment where children are free to respond to their natural drive to work and learn. The children’s inherent love of learning is encouraged by giving them opportunities to engage in spontaneous, meaningful activities under the guidance of a trained adult. Through their work, the children develop concentration, motivation, persistence, and discipline.

Within this framework of order, the children progress at their own pace and rhythm, according to their individual capabilities, during the crucial years of development.

The Montessori Philosophy

Montessori is an empirical discipline aiming to study and to help the development of the human individual from birth to maturity within the context of his life-situation. It is an educational method insofar as education is an integrative part of the formative process.

Dr. Maria Montessori, in discovering the role of the Child in the formation of Man, became its helper and its advocate. She thus generated a movement in which those involved in human sciences and their applications can find a coordinating factor in the resulting vision of man. Its impact within this broad and complex field has been considerable throughout the ongoing century.

The most tangible manifestations, however, are to be found in the educational field at large; from preparation for parenthood, childbirth and infant-care at home and in institutions, at centers concerned with the learning process in children from birth to three years, three to six, six to twelve and beyond with both normal and handicapped children. Montessori should concern all who are genuinely interested in children and in man’s future.