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Montessori and the Uncited Influence of Hegel

Steven Gimbel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, together with Anne Emerson, an educational researcher, argue that Montessori follows lines of reasoning that...

Question and Answer: The Approach to Enrichment of Language for the Elementary Years

The Long, Red Dirt Road to School

Health and Well-being: Challenges for Nawantale, Uganda

This story goes back to an email in 2006 that Eva Shaw, a former HIV/AIDS volunteer in Uganda sent to her mother Kay Grosso, shortly after some 50 mud huts...

Preparation of the Environment for the Young Child in the Family 21 February 1939, Amsterdam. Public Lecture at Maison Hirsch

In the early months of 1939, Maria Montessori spent most of her time in the Netherlands. She had commissioned the manufacture of especially designed child-size...

The Foundation of the Human Personality: Movement, Language, Independence, Freedom

This lecture was given at the 26th International Montessori Congress, held at Chennai, India, in January 2009 where Sadhana—Reflective Practice, Spontaneous...

A Comparison of Montessori Assistant to Infancy Practice and Birth-Three Traditions in Bhutan

In 2006 and 2008, as a guest of the Bhutanese government and friends, Susan Mayclin Stephenson began to research Bhutanese family life and culture in...

Cosmic Education, Sixth Lecture

In this Cosmic Lecture, Montessori continues her previous lecture on supra-nature, and how that connects to human growth. In a way this lecture also...

Art: An Essential Component of Cosmic Education

The author argues convincingly that to help comprehend our world, our minds benefit also from a visual, perceptual language, such as the pictorial arts. The...

Montessori: Education for the 21st Century

Steven Hughes shares his dismay that for most children, education still looks more or less the way it did around the beginning of the 1900s. Technology has...