Why Maria Montessoris Pedagogy?
Dr. Montessori emphasized the need for early education. She wrote: “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to age six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers at no other age has the child greater need of an intelligent help, and any obstacle that impedes his creative work will lessen the chance he has of achieving perfection.” The Real Needs of the Child Montessori attitudes and philosophy are most consistent with the needs of a child in the process of developing and learning. Montessori’s educational theories are based on scientific observations of the way a child develops naturally and are then applied in an educational system consistent with the principles of natural learning. Child Centered Dr. Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another person. People teach themselv
