Sublime

Maria Montessori (1870-1952),

casa dei bambini (« maison des enfants ») créée par Montessori et des éducatrices qu’elle forma d’emblée pour appliquer sa méthode.

In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools across the nation have adopted the timeless Montessori Method of teaching, of which this book is the cornerstone.

Montessori’s educational formula is a simple one consisting of but three elements: the prepared adult, the prepared environment, and freedom with responsibility.

In the following months, I discovered that Montessori education is about much more than freedom for children. It requires a prepared teacher who understands how children develop and who is experienced in establishing a structured environment that meets their needs at each successive age. The children are not “free to do as they like,” as I had assu