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– edited from an article by Mrs. Meenakshi Sivaramakrishnan Among the several FAQs that are asked about the Montessori child one is “ the child is in the same classroom with the same teacher for three years. How will he develop? Will he not be bored?” It is a question that can be expected from every […]

My first baby – what a thrill it was to have him! It was a small village but a large house where my mother-in-law lived. Her prized possession – her grandson, was placed in her hands. It was heavenly for her to hold him, cuddle him, talk to him, sing to him. It was very

We have just begun to perceive ‘sensitivity’ which no one can provide, but nature. It is due to this sensitivity that the child entering the second year of life becomes interested in tiny things. We can conceive that in this non-conscious age that child observes enthusiastically the environment and takes it in. And these sensitivities,

Today, most psychologists would agree upon the fact that it is during the first two years that most of the psychic constructions are built. These two years are of greatest importance as the deep rooted items of the personality are built only during these two years in which the child is mostly unconscious – he

To answer this recurring question of – “ is the Montessori Method still modern?”, allow me to resume what has happened since its inception. In 1907, a miracle happened. In a tenement house which had been built to house vagrant families, an institution was created for their destructive and handicapped children of ages between 3

If we think of the many things men have built in the world, of the enormous improvement that men have brought about in their environment, we may be led to believe that mankind’s mission in the cosmos is to transform nature. It has been said that man’s greatest delight is to possess things. No! Man’s