Elementary

It can seem like our elementary children are only focused on friends (and frenemies!) during their elementary years. We hear about what happened at recess or who they sat with

There is more to preparing for citizenship than learning civics. We live in times where elections and exercising our citizenship is vital to the preservation of democracy. Schools have an

The Reasoning Mind The key characteristic of the second plane child is the high level of independent thinking and the rapid growth of his powers to reason and go beyond

In chapter 2 titled “Metamorphoses” of her book From Childhood to Adolescence, Dr. Montessori explores the elementary child’s “turning towards intellectual and moral” development: “The passage to the second level

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS As the newborn fixes upon the sounds of human speech, and exercises the physical mechanisms needed to articulate these sounds, the mind stores impressions of meaning. The simultaneous

“Education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences in the environment.” For these reasons Dr.