Our Philosophy
Where It Began
The Montessori Philosophy
Maria Montessori was among the first women in Italy to qualify as a physician. She came to education sideways, as a doctor working with children nobody expected much from, and in 1907 she opened a classroom in the San Lorenzo district of Rome to test an idea: that children given the right materials, then left alone to use them, would largely teach themselves. By 1913 the method had spread across Europe and she was lecturing in America.
It has held up. A 2023 systematic review in Campbell Systematic Reviews pooled thirty-two studies that met strict comparison standards and found consistent advantages for Montessori students in reading, mathematics, executive function and social development. The effects are not dramatic. They are real, and they turn up across a century of very different schools.
From the very beginning, each child is recognized and treated as a unique individual, and helped to develop at a pace that is right for them.
Our Objectives
Montessori Children's Room continues its dedication to helping each child achieve their potential by nurturing and stimulating that unique union of mind and body through academics, music, drama, art, movement, and practical life skills.
What Is Montessori?
Montessori Children's Room is a private educational center dedicated to providing a quality education with high academic standards in a warm loving environment. Every part of the day is arranged to help children become confident, capable, creative, caring and happy people, on the belief that children already hold within themselves what they need to become well-educated, well-adjusted members of society.
A Montessori classroom balances individual work with the life of the group. The long uninterrupted work period is where real concentration happens, and it is the part of the day we protect most carefully. What children find in it is the scientist’s delight in solving problems and the mathematician’s delight in playing with patterns, which sounds like a strange thing to say about four-year-olds until you have watched it happen.