Montessori Matters | The MCS Blog

Dr. Montessori noted that the period between six and twelve was when a child’s imagination should be engaged and where the “maximum number of seeds of interest” should be strewn, “capable of later germination as the will becomes more directive…”     In her 1947 book, To Educate the Human Potential  (quoted below), Dr. Montessori accurately describes what is now validated by neuroscience:  that exposing the brain to many ideas in the elementary years increases the opportunitie

Some of my sweetest memories as a teacher (including in Room 1 at MCS thirty years ago!) center around playing Dr. Montessori’s Silence...

Earlier in the year, we welcomed parents of children in the Preschool & Kindergarten Program to campus for 'Ohana Days, where they...

“Normalization” is a term used in the Montessori classroom to describe that state when children are able, by their own volition, to...

Dr. Maria Montessori was born in 1870.  Throughout her long life, she experienced wars and injustice, but never lost her abiding belief...