• The grouping allows younger students the stimulation of older children, who in turn benefit from serving as role models.
• Since children normally stay in the same class for three years, the classroom culture remain stable.
• The students develop a strong sense of community.

Q- Why Montessori is more expensive as compared to conventional schools?
A- This is due to cost of extensive teacher education, high cost of the Montessori material, and superior equipment and furniture.

Q- How can Montessori teachers meet the needs of so many different children?
A- Montessori teachers normally do not spend much time in teaching lesson to the whole class. Their primary role is to prepare and maintain the physical, intellectual and social/emotional environment within which the children will work. Also since Montessori teachers normally work with each child for two or three years, they get to know their students' strengths & weaknesses extremely well.

Q- Is Montessori for all children?
A- The Montessori system has been used successfully with children from all socio economic levels, representing those in regular class as well as the gifted, children with development delays and children with emotional and physical disabilities.

Q- What would be the most important advantage of keeping my five-year-old son in a Montessori school?
A- The Montessori way of teaching is focused on teaching for understanding. In such kind of schools more emphasis is laid on a process which facilitates a child to understand and comprehend the concept, rather than learn a concept by rote and have no clue as to the practical application of the concept. In fact, more and more researchers have concluded that children in their formative years learn more by observing than they otherwise would in a classroom.

Q- In a class with such a wide age range of children, won't my 5 years old son end up looking after the younger students?
A- The fact that Montessori education encourages children to work in groups is because they learn more by making others understand. Also their concepts become clearer. Apart from this, such kind of ambience inculcates values like understanding, teamwork, cooperation that have become the key attributes for an individuals success in today's world.

Q- Since most children will eventually have to go to the neighborhood schools, wouldn't it be better for them to make the transition in Kindergarten rather than in first grade.
A- It has been observed from the children who have passed out of Montessori school that they have an excellent two-year start as compared to students who have studied in other schools. Montessori kids will always have an advantage as the philosophy in Montessori schools believes in joy in learning and in building the self confidence, independence and enthusiasm for the learning process, they normally can adapt to all sorts of new situations. The program itself has comprehensive and enriched lesson in Math's, reading, languages, and a wide range of lessons in science, geography and other cultural areas.