Source of Inspiration

Montessori is an education for life, a learning process where children are encouraged to develop at their own pace is a safe and caring environment.

Established worldwide, the Montessori method has proved successful with children from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. There are thousands of Montessori schools in Europe, North America and Australasia.

Montessori is both a philosophy of child-growth and a rationale for guiding such growth. It is based on the child’s innate need to develop intellectual and physical abilities and provides a carefully prepared environment designed to meet and direct this need. Her aim was to develop the whole personality of a child through motor, sensory and intellectual activity. Theories were far less important to her than the child himself. She had love and respect for the child, and her concern fro his welfare crossed the boundaries of race, religion and creed.

The Montessori approach to education is child-centred and is based on mutual respect and co-operation. The teacher in a Montessori classroom is more of a guide and facilitator, respecting the concentration and varied learning approaches of the children. The innate creativity of the child is realized in curriculum activities from art and music, to mathematics and science.

The lessons were designed to enable the child to sort out and digest the large number of impressions he possesses, to assimilate additional ones through experience, and to stimulate and refine the child’s power of observation preliminary to acquiring judgment and understanding.



Montessori is about learning to balance responsibility with freedom of choice, it offers children the opportunity to realize their potential, in a non-competitive environment and seeks to promote them:

 Self confidence and self esteem
 A sense of achievement and self worth
 A sense of responsibility for themselves and their actions
 Independence and adaptability
 Cooperation with others
 A sense of community respect for rights and needs of others
 Concentration and persistence in completing a task
 Initiative and self-motivation

At ANA Montessori, children grow and develop in an absolutely unique environment. They learn to work to the very best of their ability, to care for and respect others, to develop a natural curiosity in the world around them, and to fulfill a “love of learning”.