In 1906, Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian educator, physician, and scientist, who had just judged an international competition on the subjects of scientific pedagogy and experimental psychology, was invited to create a childcare center in San Lorenzo, a poor, inner-city district of Rome. There, she […]

Why are so many parents and teachers such passionate advocates of the Montessori method of education? Simply put, because it works. “There was no method to be seen, what was seen was a child acting according to its own nature.— Dr. Maria Montessori from Secret of […]

The Montessori method is particularly prominent in early childhood and primary school education. Developed by Italian educator and doctor Maria Montessori after extensive research with special needs children in the early years of the twentieth century, the method contains five basic principles. The Five Principles […]