'Dr 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 her own natural desire to learn.'
'The purpose of Montessori Education', Aline D Wolf
Our philosophy is to support the Montessori movement by offering the largest range of Montessori titles of any bookshop in the world, at competitive prices. We also stock parenting books, where the ideas expounded by the authors are similar to the Montessori approach; and children's educational books that we consider of exceptional quality.
Our shop has been operating since 1992 (originally trading as The Terrace Bookshop) and the proprietor has been involved in the Montessori movement since 1981. We are the preferred supplier to the Montessori
Australia Foundation (MAF) and the Aust AMI Alumni Assos (AAAA), the majority of the teacher training courses as well as being the official bookseller at for the Australian AMI Association World Conference (Sydney 2005).
Montessori Books is the only www bookshop in Australian that actually stocks the books we advertise. We are able to do this because we are Australia’s largest seller of Montessori books in Australia, enabling us to pass these benefits onto you the customer. This means you do not have to wait for the books to be shipped from overseas to fill your order. We even offer an Express Postage service within Australia, so you can have your order delivered to your door in as little as 2 working days.
Passages about Montessori:
Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised her method based on observations of how children naturally learn.
She considered 'the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For this is the time when man's intelligence itself, his greatest implement is being formed. But not only his intelligence; the full totality of his psychic powers … At no other age has the child greater need of an intelligent help, and any obstacle that impedes his creative work will lessen the chance he has of achieving perfection.'
Dr Maria Montessori, 'The Absorbent Mind'
Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos; three of the most successful internet entrepreneurs to date, were Montessori children. Hardly a coincidence.
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