For over 100 years , the Montessori approach has educated generations of children all around the world. Dr Maria Montessori,the creator of the Montessori approach to education, was a keen observer of children and how they learn. Her method and conclusions were ahead of her time, but, within the context of today’s enlightened educational approach,they are at the cutting edge of where education is heading.
” The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to age six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement is being formed. At no other age has the child great need of an intelligent help and any obstacle that impedes his creative work will lessen the chance he has of achieving perfection”
“The Absorbent Mind” Dr Montessori.