What are the differences between Montessori education and the traditional method of education?
The purpose of the Montessori early childhood education is not to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of studies as is done in traditional education, but rather to nurture his/her own choice rather than being forced; and second, by helping him/her to perfect all his/her natural tools for learning, so that his/her ability will be maximum in future learning situations. Parents please understand that a Montessori school is neither a baby-sitting service or a play school that prepares a child for traditional kindergarten. Montessori is a unique cycle of learning that is designed to take advantage of the child’s sensitive years between the ages of two and a half to six (Casa classroom). Dr. Montessori wrote, The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full total
