The Montessori Method

This is such a great guide if you’re looking to incorporate Montessori education for your child! It reads more like a text book in its technicalities but is easy to follow along and can help answer any questions you might have. I recommend getting The Montessori Baby by Simone Davies as an accompanying book.

Beautiful blue copy. Right size and front for what I needed. Thank you.

pretty interesting. a drop of a hard read. Still getting through it.

Received in good condition and as imaged

The book itself is great, if challenging. It loses a star for the cheap binding of this edition. As soon as I opened the book, I was fearful of it falling apart. I would invest in a more expensive copy to this book. One whose manufacturer respected the book as the classic that it is.

This is an excellent book for someone interested in one of the best ways to educate a child. A great study!

Here, Maria Montessori introduces a scientific approach to pedagogy. The Montessori schools which she established and developed are intended for children three to seven years of age. The children are allowed as much freedom as possible and are provided with "didactic materials" which are various artifacts which they can use to educate themselves. They are supervised by a single directress whose primary task is to observe the children and direct their efforts by explaining to them how various didactic materials are used (it's very simple, but nothing is obvious to a young child). This book offers some valuable concete advice, but its primary use to me was as an introduction to the approach of scientific pedagogy. The basic premises as I understand them are that (1) children have a natural desire to learn and (2) one can learn how to live in freedom only by being free. These premises are fully supported and fleshed out in the book. The Montessori method achieved startling results, with four year old children (on average) learning to be masters of themselves, disciplined, benevolent, self-confident, and capable of reading and writing. Every educator should be familiar with Maria Montessori's work.

I like to read source materials versus the modern interpretations. This is very dense if you are not buying for academic reasons. If you want a good distillation of Montessori principles, I preferred some of the modern updated Montessori parenting books which are summarized, organized in meaningful ways, and have pictures to demonstrate concepts.

Não é um livro de fácil leitura para pessoas que não são especialistas na área da pedagogia.

Love this book - a great way to learn about Montessori as a philosophy and methodology

I recommend this book to anyone who's seeking inspiration for educating and teaching children. I found it better than the modern ones on the same topic, it's a mix of history, philosophy and practical manual.

This books is one that every teacher and Student teacher should read, the more you go deep into the concepts and philosophy of Dr. Montessori one can understand the reason for all the problems in the current generation.

My Fellow Citizens and English Speaking People around the World:Anyone, who is interesting in people who are in an absolute poverty, and would like to educate them, how to get out of it, please read Signora Monterossi's Method. This message is first and most of all to my fellow colleagues: teachers and professors. Anonymus