The Children

The early years of childhood are more important developing child's whole personality than any succeeding period. As Benjamin Bloom states in Stability and Change in Human Characteristics. The individual developing 50% of his intelligence from conception to age 4, from ages 4 to 8 he develops another 30%, and from the ages 8 to 17 the remaining 20%---- about 17% of intellectual growth takes place between the ages of 4 and 6.

Children of mixes ages and abilities work together in Montessori a class. Upgraded grouping permit independent development, discourages individual competition and allows whatever activities sites his particulars stage of development. He progress from that point, at his own pace, in his own pattern. Children may work at a task uninterrupted for as long as they wish, uncompetitive character of class encourages easy social relationship.

What is Montessori

The structure of montessori learning involves the use of a wide range of teaching materials with which the child may work individually. At every step of his learning the apparatus isolates a particular problem, tests the child's understanding, and corrects his errors. Since movement is an inherent factor in learning, many activities engage the child's large and small muscles, his senses and his mind. Dr. Montessori recognized what psychologist Jean Paiget had since related, that the only valid impulse to learning is the child's self-environment that set the behavioral example and offers the child stimulation thus disposing the child to learn by teaching himself, motivated by the excitement of the process, not the end product nor the teacher.