Dr. Maria Montessori was a true pioneer woman, who in the early twentieth century began an educational revolution, developing a revolutionary method that today is used in more than 22000 schools all over the world. The "Montessori method" was held to be a "generic term" that no organization could claim for its own exclusive use.

Two of the many insightful and somewhat radical ideas of this method are these:

Inner guidance of nature. All children have inherent inner directives from nature that guide their true normal development.

Freedom for self-directed learning. This method respects individual liberty of children to choose their own activities. This freedom allows children to follow their inner guidance for self-directed learning.

This means: kids and adolescents overcoming by their own, the challenges they have to face, developing to the maximum their "creative generator". The teacher's role is to observe children engaged in activities that follow their own natural interests.

To consider the school as the place where instruction is given is one point of view. But to consider the school as a preparation for life is another.

"The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all of this potential." Maria Montessori.-