Why Montessori?

Dr Maria Montessori believed that the task of learning should come naturally. ‘From the little child grows a mighty adult’. Childhood blooms only once & it is up to us to provide the necessary environment for a healthy blossom. For a child to grow from a seed to a healthy, well-nurtured tree (i.e. adult), it is important to pay attention to the roots (i.e. childhood). Being a Dr of medicine & with her scientific knowledge she designed a number of materials to enhance learning in children. These materials are unique & are valid even with to-day’s children, even after 100 years all over the world.

According to Maria Montessori, “A child’s work is to create the person she/he will become.” Children are born with mental powers which aid them in their own development. However, they cannot complete the task of self-construction without purposeful movement, exploration, and discovery of their environment – both the things and people within it. They must be given the freedom to develop physically, intellectually, and spiritually. The “Freedom Within Limits”atmosphere of a Montessori classroom provides an environment which nurtures a sense of order and self-discipline.

“ The child has creative aptitude, a potential energy that will enable it to build metal world from the world about it. He makes numerous acqusition during the sensitive periods, which put him in relation to the other world in an exceptionally intense manner.”