The Montessori Method is based on the belief that:

• Children are to be respected as individuals. They are different from adults and they differ from each other.

• Children have a sensitivity and capacity for learning very different from that of adults.

• The first six years of life are the most important periods of growth.

• Children work not for profit and completion of goals like adults, but for the sake of activity in the development of mental, physical, and psychological abilities.