Montessori Views Each Child As Unique

• Children are recognized and respected as being different from adults and as being unique individuals distinct from each other.
• Young children have “absorbent minds”–the special capacity to absorb information from their environment without concentrated effort or formal instruction.
• Montessori materials invite children to learn to read, write, and calculate in the same natural way that they learn to walk and talk–at their own pace.
• Young children go through “sensitive periods” when their interest in and ability to absorb a particular concept are greater than at any other time in their lives.
• Children have a deep love and need for purposeful work. This work helps them develop their mental, physical, social, and psychological powers.
• The Montessori approach embraces the development of “the whole child” — physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual.