montessori methode
The Montessori Method + Bonus Guide
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Main headline
What If the Way You're Teaching Your Child Is Getting in the Way of Their Genius?
Opening hook
Most children don't have a learning problem. They have an environment problem.
Over 100 years ago, a physician named Maria Montessori made a discovery that still challenges everything we assume about how children learn: children don't need to be taught. They need to be trusted.
The Montessori Method is the book that started a global revolution in education — and it is just as radical, practical, and necessary today as it was when Montessori first wrote it.
What's inside
The full biographical story of Maria Montessori — Italy's first female physician, and how her work with disadvantaged children led to one of the most influential educational systems in history
An annotated edition of Montessori's original text, with editor's notes by scholar Gerald Lee Gutek that put every chapter in its historical and philosophical context
The science behind the Montessori approach: sensitive periods, the absorbent mind, sensory education, practical life skills, and the child's natural explosion into reading and writing
A rigorous critique of the method by Columbia professor William Kilpatrick — so you can think for yourself, not just follow a trend
Related primary documents, including Anne E. George's translation notes from Montessori's landmark 1913 American lecture tour
306 pages
Annotated edition
Primary sources included
Ages 0–12
Parents & educators
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say: the children are now working as if I did not exist."
— Maria Montessori
