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“The strength of even the smallest children is more than we imagine, but it must have a free play in order to reveal itself. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Child, p. 68 Happening this week: Friday Dec. 20th: ...

“We tend to think that the realm of music is the privileged area of some happy few. Experience has taught us, however, that if offered the right kind of education from a very early age onwards, anyone is capable of entering the realm of music. Not everyone has the talent to practise music at an ar...

“When the children find themselves in the environment we have prepared, the social contact with other children begins. [...] One might imagine that the children would fight, but no, the children have solved the problem. We can sum this up by saying that the child leaves the others to be active ...

“Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind. If you let him pursue his own little affairs and interests undisturbed, you will find that he will be less inclined to disturb yours. Try to interfere with him as little as possible, th...

“Indeed we have come to the conclusion that the basis of all culture should be given in this period from seven years to adolescence. I mentioned the fact that on this educational plane, giving material was not enough, but material is nonetheless essential. ”Maria Montessori Citizen of the Worl...

“To give our children a fine start in life we must see that their surroundings satisfy their need for activity and development, remembering at the same time that our own part is not that of instructor and interferer but of helper. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents ...

“The attention of little children is continually being drawn to one thing or other on their walks. They stop to observe and admire things they see. They are like explorers. This is a preparation for the adaptation to the environment. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Lectures, p. 134 ...

“If the different individuals have to live harmoniously in one society, with a common aim there must be a set of rules which we call morality. Therefore, we can consider morality as a form of adaptation to a common life for the achievement of a common aim. Morality, which is usually considered ...

“I can only say that as the children become older their life becomes more complicated. To answer these needs why does society only give sport and games? Why is there pride just in winning a game? Why not aim to make the individual psychically strong? Why not institute moral sport through social...

“There is not just a need for happier schools, schools where the children are free to do as they like or schools where they use certain materials: education today needs reform. If education is to prepare man for the present, and the immediate future, he will need a new orientation towards the envi...

“The child works to become [an adult]; by an inner force which urges him to continual activity he acquires little by little his mature characteristics. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents, p. 2 Happening this week: ...

“There is no punishment or reward in our schools to interfere with the joy in the work itself. The only reward is in the completion of the work – it is at this time that internal discipline establishes itself, and the foundations of character are laid. ”Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori Speaks ...

“We must study the correlation between life and the environment. In nature all is correlated. This is the purpose of nature. Nature is not concerned just with the conservation of individual life or with the betterment of itself. It is a harmony, a plan of construction. Everything fits into the ...

“The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves and they learn to be careful and precise in their movements. This is both education of movement, because there is a refinement of muscular co-ordination when the work is carefully done, and education through ...

“It is the ‘valorisation’ of the personality, to become aware of ones own value. Without this, as many psychologists say, the child only feels his own value if he is loved. This is another ‘valorisation’ – he is independent, he is sure of his own actions and knows how to act. ”Maria M...

“If we change our whole attitude and say to ourselves, ‘My child knows what is best for him. Let us of course watch that he comes to no harm, but instead of trying to teach him our ways let us give him the freedom to live his little life in his own way,’ then perhaps, if we are observant, w...

“The strength of even the smallest children is more than we imagine, but it must have a free play in order to reveal itself. ” Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Child, p. 68 Happening this week:Friday, May 31stField...

“...there would be all kinds of artistic occupations open to free choice both as to the time and the nature of the work. Some must be for the individual and some would require the cooperation of a group. They would involve artistic and linguistic ability and imagination,... ”Maria Montessori F...

“The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. ”Maria Montessori From Childhood to Adolescence Happening this week:Friday, May 17th: ...

“During this period of growth [childhood] the child learns spontaneously, without tiring; he observes the things around him (one might even say he studies them) and absorbs them, thereby invigorating himself. ”Maria Montessori Citizen of the World Happening ...

“He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. ”Maria Montessori The Absorbent Mind, p. 25 Happening this week:Friday, May 3rd: ...

Thank you to all who participated in our Spring Clean Up, giving of yourselves for the betterment of our community.   “We can see clearly what is necessary to give in order to help the child. It is to give the possibility of independence, of living t...

“It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Lectures Friday, April 19th: ...

“When they arrive in the morning, there are many things to attend to. The children look after the classroom. They sweep with their own small brooms and dust and scrub and polish. Then there is their personal cleanliness. When a child’s hands are dirty, we do not take him to the basin and wash hi...

“Through practical exercises...the children develop a true “social feeling,” for they are working in the environment of the community in which they live, without concerning themselves as to whether it is for their own, or for the common good. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Child ...

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and therefore the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child, who lives as a rule for the passing mo...

“When work has become a habit, the intellectual level rises rapidly, and organized order causes good conduct to become a habit. Children then work with order, perseverance, and discipline, persistently and naturally; the permanent, calm and vivifying work of the physical organism resembles the res...

“We tend to think that the realm of music is the privileged area of some happy few. Experience has taught us, however, that if offered the right kind of education from a very early age onwards, anyone is capable of entering the realm of music. Not everyone has the talent to practise music at an ar...

“As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile glasses inside. There is no need to worry about his ungainly movements [...] they will vanish of their own accord. ”Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori S...

Friday, Feb. 23rd:There will be no aftercare today. This is an evening you won't want to miss and will be our one major fundraiser of the year. PURCHASE ADMISSION TICKETS Bidding opens this morning at 8:00am and continu...

“No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a “reward” or by fear of what we call a “punishment”.... Every victory and every advance in human progress comes from an inner compulsion. ”Maria Montessori Th...

“In our schools we allow the children to use their spontaneous activity by offering them objects which call for movements appropriate to their stage of development; in this way they learn through doing. This is their work, and their concentration and perseverance is astonishing. ”Maria Monte...

“We must study the correlation between life and its environment. In nature everything correlates. This is the method of nature. Nature is not concerned with the conservation of individual life: it is a harmony, a plan of construction. Everything fits into the plan: winds, rocks, earth, water, p...

“The mathematical mind is a mind which is especially interested in mathematics. Instead of finding mathematics idiotic and absurd, it finds them interesting and absorbing. It is a fact that most of the children in our Montessori Schools do achieve great enthusiasm in doing mathematics. It is th...

“Not only can imagination travel through infinite space, but also through infinite time; we can go backwards through the epochs, and have the vision of the earth as it was, with the creatures that inhabited it. ”Maria Montessori To Educate the Human Potential, p. 10 ...

“Grown-ups think of play as a purposeless occupation that keeps children happy and out of mischief, but actually when children are left to play by themselves very little of their activity is purposeless. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents, p. 31 ...

Welcome Back!  Classes resume Wednesday January 3rd, 2024! Happening this week: Wednesday, Jan. 3rd:Classes resume   Thursday, Jan. 4th: ...

“We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed of character traits; his abilities give him great satisfaction, and he smiles with a sweet and joyous smile. ”Maria Montessori Citizen of the World, p. 96 ...

“It is tremendously important that we should understand the spontaneous way in which the child develops himself. We are so anxious to help, to us it seems the burden of growth and development is so great that we must do all we can to make the pathway easy. And so our love may easily overreac...

“We must give them the means and encourage them.  ‘Courage, my dear, courage! You are a new man/woman that must adapt to this new world. Go on triumphantly. I am here to help you.’  This kind of encouragement is instinctive in those who love children. ”Maria Montessori The 1946 London Le...

“Children indeed love flowers, but they need to do something more than remain among them and contemplate their coloured blossoms. They find their greatest pleasure in acting, in knowing, in exploring, even apart from the attraction of external beauty. ”Maria Montessori The Discovery of the Chi...

“It is not yet realized that there are two powerful forces in human life: that which drives the formation of man (childhood) and that which drives the construction of society (adulthood). These forces are so closely meshed that, if one is neglected, the other cannot be attained. There is no awa...

“The spontaneous urge towards development, which is within the child, dictates its own pace. It is the part of a wise and loving parent to stand by, to watch the little one’s activities, to observe his growth rather than to try to force it. ”Maria Montessori Maria Montessori Speaks to Parent...

November 3rd - November 10th, 2023 “Now what is it that strikes the imagination? Above all, grandeur and, next, mystery. The imagination is then able to reconstruct the whole when it knows the real detail. ”Maria Montessori From ...

October 27th - November 3rd, 2023 “We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed of character traits; his abilities give him great satisfaction, and he smile...