Elementary School Years:
1st to 5th grades
Dr. Montessori describes the elementary age child as a very different being from the younger, primary child. Since, in Montessori's view, successive levels of education must correspond to the successive stages of the development of the child, the educational approach for students between the ages of 6 to 12 is not a direct continuation of what has gone before, although it is built upon the foundation laid in early childhood.
Primary School Years:
Ages 3 to 6 years
Dr. Maria Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another person. He or she must do it by him or herself or it will never be learned. A truly educated individual continues learning long after the years he or she spends in the classroom because that person is motivated from within by a natural curiosity and love for knowledge. Montessori felt that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of studies, but rather to cultivate the child's own natural desire to learn.
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