The Montessori philosophy is based on the child's developmental needs for
freedom within limits, and a carefully prepared environment which guarantees
exposure to materials and experiences designed to enhance intelligence as
well as physical and psychological abilities.
- Children are to be respected as different from adults, and as individuals
who differ from each other.
- Children possess unusual sensitivity and mental powers for absorbing and
learning from their environment that are unlike those of adults both in
quantity and capacity.
- The most important years of mental growth are the first six years of life
when unconscious learning is gradually brought to the conscious level.
- Children have a deep love and need for purposeful work.