October-November 2009, Featured Articles, Columns
Montessori Naturally
Going the Independent Route in Education
Montessori education is driven by an ambitious aim: to aid the children’s development into a complete adult human being, comfortable with themselves, with their society and with humanity as a whole. Whereas the traditional approach to education, which prevails today, remains focused on the transmission of prescribed blocks of knowledge, the Montessori approach focuses on giving support to the natural development of the human being.
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