This book is Montessori's own explanation of the theory behind her innovative education techniques. She shows parents, teachers and administrators how to "free a child to learn from his own efforts".
An audience already thoroughly interested awaits this translation of a remarkable book. For years no educational document has been so eagerly expected by so large a public, and not many have better me
The Montessori method is characterized by an emphasis on self-directed activity on the part of the child and clinical observation on the part of the teacher. It stresses the importance of adapting the
