Author(s): Maria Montessori
Publisher: Schocken
Pages: 416
Binding: Paperback
Maria Montessori pioneered a method of education based upon human reason and the value of the individual. She was neither permissive nor authoritarian. She recognized humans as rational beings with a desperate need to develop their minds from the earliest age possible. This book is Montessori's own exposition of the theory behind her innovative educational techniques. She shows parents, teachers and administrators how to "free a child to learn through his own efforts."