Dr. Maria Montessori is the creator for the Montessori Education Method for a new world who devoted her life to improve children’s education excellence. Her educational method is widely used in schools or at home for children 3 t0 6 years old. Maria Montessori lived through one of the traumatic time eras of the world history, which changed everybody’s lives including children. It was the time of anxiety, cruelty, death, family separation and children facing starvation. Maria Montessori felt the best solution to overcome endless, war, violence and poverty is education. Therefore, Maria Montessori believed educating the next generation will improve children’s live and future of the entire community.
Maria Montessori felt through education every child could reach his or her potential and become a logical thinker and learn things like, tolerance, cooperation and communication. Thus, she reformed the education system by creating this whole new method of education for a brilliant next new generation.”Truly there is an urgent need today of reforming the methods of instruction and education and he who aims at such a renewal is struggling for the next generation of mankind” (The discovery of the child, Topic 1, p.10)
Montessori believed that education should be taught to children naturally and spontaneously. She felt the current education system is very teacher- centered approach rather than child-centered approach. If the education is to be reformed, it has to be child-centered approach meaning the education is focused on the child which gives importance to the child. She wanted children to have the freedom to explore their surroundings and to learn, make choices, connections and communicate. Therefore, she felt it’s time to introduce a new education system that will be focusing on the child.
In order to reform the education system, there are changes that need to be done. The first step would be to make