About Montessori
Montessori takes its name from its founder, Maria Montessori, a remarkable Italian woman born in 1870. Maria Montessori was the first woman to graduate as a Doctor of Medicine in Italy and went on to spend her life working with children and developing the teaching methods and learning environments now used as a foundation for Montessori schools. She believed that children have an innate love of learning, which can be fostered in a caring and enriched environment.

The Montessori method stresses development of self-reliance and initiative by allowing children to do by themselves the things that interest them, but within disciplined limits.

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The child is not taught but learns to learn.
Dr Montessori also believed that no human being is educated by another person. They must do it for themselves or it will never be done. A truly educated individual continues learning long after the hours and years they spend in the classroom because a natural curiosity and love for knowledge motivates them from within. She felt, therefore, that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the children with facts from a pre-selected course of studies, but rather to cultivate the child’s own natural desire to learn.

The Montessori Classroom
In a Montessori classroom this objective is approached in two different ways: first, by allowing each child to experience the excitement of learning by his or her own choice rather than being forced, and second, by helping them to perfect all their natural tools for learning.

The Montessori Method aims to develop each child’s concentration, co-ordination, persistence, self-discipline, orderliness, desire to learn, independence, initiative and creative self-expression. The habits and skills that a child develops in a Montessori class remain with the child for life. They will help the child to work more efficiently, to observe more carefully and to concentrate more effectively, no matter where he or she goes.

Montessori prepares each child for life’s journey.