What is Montessori?

"We must not dwell on his limitations, we must focus on his possibilities"

-Maria Montessori

What is Montessori? We are often asked this question and its incredibly difficult to come up with a soundbite to define a whole philosophy.

Essentially Montessori education is driven by an ambitious aim: To aid the child’s development into a complete adult human being, comfortable with himself, with his society and with humanity as a whole. Whereas the traditional approach to education, which prevails today, remains focused on the transmission of prescribed blocks of knowledge, the Montessori approach is focused on giving support to the natural development of the human being.

Read more about a explanation of Montessori here

A guide to the differences between Montessori and mainstream education is here