Montessori is a fundamental belief that a child learns best within a social environment which supports each individual’s unique development. Children are to be respected as different from adults and as individuals who are different from one another. Children create through purposeful activity and possess unusual sensitivity and mental powers for absorbing and learning from their environment, which includes people as well as materials.

This approach to teaching is based on RESPECT for the child with an aim to help the child help himself or herself to acquire the characteristics necessary to become a happy, mature and contributing adult.

Montessori schools have a very different set of priorities than traditional schools. Montessori students tend to become self-confident, independent thinkers who learn because they are interested in the world and enthusiastic about life, not simply to get a good grade. Montessori schools seek to develop culturally literate children and nurture their fragile sparks of curiosity, creativity, and intelligence.