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The Scientific Topicality of the Montessori Model

This article offers a precise description on the how’s and why’s of the Montessori model.

Cosmic Education, Fourth Lecture (1936)

Montessori talks extensively about sea life, continuing her descriptions of the interconnectedness of all organisms on earth, however small, and revels in the...

Question and Answer: Observation in the Elementary Classroom

An article filled with suggestions on how to develop observation habits in the elementary classroom.

Montessori and Tools for Life: An Interview with Henk Barendregt

An Interview with Henk Barendregt, chair of chair of Foundations of Mathematics and Computer Science at Nijmegen University – and Montessori student from 4-17.

The Absorbent Mind

The author shares with use the cosmic elements of Montessori’s achievements, and tells an inviting story on man’s reasoning power, and the intelligence of the...

Editorial

Language is the vehicle that communicates most of the knowledge that a human being acquires about human life in its many aspects. Each one of us creates our...

Language and the Absorbent Mind, Lecture No. 9-13 December 1948

Montessori describes the child’s inner urges and his sensorial powers to go from big to minute, from large to the finest detail. Seeing the invisible, love and...

The Absorbent Mind

Mario Montessori makes a firm plea for the timelessness of the Montessori approach to education and devotes a sizeable section to the child’s mental powers and...

Learning to Read through Grammar

Few teachers of English in English-speaking countries have learnt another language consciously; subsequently, their knowledge of grammar is often disconnected...

Cosmic Education, Fifth Lecture (1936)

In this Cosmic Lecture, Montessori talks at length about supra natura, ‘Man's needs become more and more refined as his progress goes on, so that it is...