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Dr. Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another
person. The individual must do it themselves or they will never
be done. A truly educated individual continues learning long
after the hours and years she/he spends in the classroom because
she/he is motivated from with in by a natural curiosity and
love for knowledge. Thus, aim of the Montessori program is to
“help the child help themselves”. It is the child’s
potential for auto education and inner discipline that is responsible
for the successful results of this indirect and individual process
of education. It is a multi-sensory approach, offering strong
sensory stimulants and therefore, it is not confined to verbal
teaching. The child is always encouraged to discover their
environment by touching. The materials the child uses are
concrete at the beginning and thus help the child to organize
and understand the multitude of impressions he or she had
received and continues to receive. The main focus of the philosophy
is the education of the child’s “whole personality”.
Through his or her involvement in real life activities, the
child has the opportunity to develop emotionally, physically,
socially, intellectually, and culturally.
A child usually enters a Montessori classroom class room
between the ages of two-and-half and three years of age, depending
on when he or she can be happy in a class room situation.
The young child begins with the simplest exercises based on
activities young children enjoy. The exercises a child uses
at three will help develop the concentration and coordination
necessary for more advanced exercises the child will experience
at the age of five and six. The entire program is purposefully
structured to individual’s development needs, covering
a period of three years. Therefore, optimum results cannot
be expected either for the child who misses the early years
of the cycle of learning or of the child who is withdrawn
before she/he finishes the basic materials.
Dr. Montessori referred to the classroom as the prepared
environment, as a place that is carefully set by the teachers
to offer beauty, order, and reality to children. It is our
mission at City Montessori to provide best possible environment
for children’s life long learning and growth.
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