“Children learn naturally through activity and their characters develop through freedom.”
Dr. Maria Montessori
Montessori Method
Step into the world of Montessori, a unique educational approach crafted by Dr. Maria Montessori, the first and the only one Italian physician of her times. Her method was not shaped within the confines of a classroom but was born from the wonderment of watching children all around the globe.
Dr. Montessori observed children closely and discovered their unique qualities at each stage of development. She designed a scientifically proven method, environments and materials around the needs and tendencies specific to each age, which help bring out the best in every child.
How is Montessori Education Unique?
- Personalised Curriculum
- One-on-one lessons
- Flexibility in development
- Working and learning matched to the social development of the child
- Learning through hands-on experience
- Learning is based on the fact that physical exploration and cognition are linked
- All learning styles are addressed
- Children make choice and decisions
- Freedom of movement
- Montessori materials make abstract concepts concrete
Discover the Montessori Environment and Materials
“The hand is the instrument of intelligence. The child needs to manipulate objects and to gain experience by touching and handling.”
Dr. Maria Montessori
Montessori classrooms offer a unique and wondrous environment for your child.
- Children work individually or collaboratively, using special learning materials, and they are fully engrossed in their activities while demonstrating respect for themselves and their surroundings.
- The classroom is aesthetically pleasing, practical, and purposeful, all aimed at facilitating your child's growth.
- Children of different ages are grouped together, promoting friendship, respect, and natural cooperation.
- Your child has the freedom to choose their work and can concentrate without interruptions, creating an exciting and personalized learning experience.
- Logically covers all aspects of the curriculum.
Famous Montessori Students
“Montessori the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the schools’ alumni that one might begin to suspect a Montessori mafia”
Joshua Bell
A world-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell is thoughtful about the role his music plays in society. In a cultural experiment turned Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post story, it is Bell’s humility, not his virtuosity, that most inspires. In suspending his fame to explore the true meaning of his work, Bell exhibits Montessori thinking at its best.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s founder, who proudly cites his Montessori roots, is a study in contradictions: analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. Critics note his extraordinary ability to learn from others, one hallmark of Montessori education.
David Blaine
David Blaine was a four-year old Montessori student when he fell in love with magic. Today he’s called “the modern day Houdini” by The New York Times, which says, “He’s taken a craft that’s been around for hundreds of years and done something unique and fresh with it… [His magic] “operates on an uncommonly personal level.”
T Berry Brazelton
Dr. Brazelton’s positive, child-oriented philosophy of parenting has influenced countless families to raise children who are “confident, caring, and hungry to learn”. Brazelton attended a Montessori school as a child and now supports Montessori philosophy through his lectures and publications.
Sean “P Diddy” Combs
The multi-talented hip hop artist Sean “P Diddy” Combs says he feels fortunate to have attended Mount Vernon Montessori School during his childhood, recalling that, “I feel like I was nurtured into wanting to be somebody special”.
Sergey Brin
American billionaire business magnate best known for co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019.[1] He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders and board members. As of June 2023, Brin is the 9th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $107 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[2]
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, country music’s youngest-ever Entertainer of the Year, attended Alvernia Montessori School in Berks County Pa. The singer is widely described as “the product of homegrown values”; New York Times calls her “one of pop’s finest songwriters, country music’s foremost pragmatist, and more in touch with her inner life than most adults”.
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