Celebrating Montessori Education Week!
This year, Montessori Education Week is February 25th through March 3rd, 2018. We want to celebrate by not only honoring Dr. Maria Montessori, but also by thanking our Trent parents (both past and present) for believing in the Montessori Method and choosing to give your children a Montessori education.
Throughout history, Montessori has touched the lives of children and adults around the world. By recognizing the child’s own ability to learn, teachers have been freed to gently guide the child along the path of knowledge. A mutually respectful working relationship develops where guide and child work together to help develop the construction of knowledge. This early independence develops creative minds, capable of intense problem-solving. Indeed, some of today’s great thinkers, artists, and politicians were Montessori educated: Larry Page and Sergey Brin (co-founders of Google); Julia Child (chef); Will Wright (video game pioneer); Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia); Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Literature Nobel Prize); and Jeff Bezos (CEO Amazon.com). In addition, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) all advocated and helped start Montessori schools. (Paragraph originally found here: http://montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2013/02/celebrate-montessori-week-experience.html)