This is excellent preparation for adult life in a peaceful society. From the teachers example, the child learns how to teach. This facilitates social development, creativity, and independent thinking. Most important an environment is provided in which the work and concentration of the individual child is respected. Except for a state required curriculum, which takes very little time when children are working at their own pace, lessons in the elementary class are offered, not required.
Children learn to plan and to be responsible for their own education.
There are certain ages when we have found that children are often interested in a given subject, but the wise adult follows the child, knowing that the human mind works on its own, guided by a power within. The products selected by the Michael Olaf Montessori staff are very different from those commonly available for children. We plan to add these products to our web page in the future, but in the meantime they can be found, along with many illustrations and photographs of children, in the paper copy of Child of the World.