In the year 1907, Dr. Maria Montessori introduced a new concept education for nurturing young children. In her research, she made an observation that every child as an individual has his or her own unique capabilities and level of learning. Children are keen to explore new things and master new skills. According to her, this individuality must be encouraged and the children should provide enough space to initiate projects on their own.

For such encouragement, children must be provided with right stimulation through sensory and artistic education supplemented with proper ambiance. They should have the freedom for exploring things on their own. This, in turn, ensures amazing overall development of each child helping the child to achieve his or her full potential.

Montessori education concept encompasses these findings to assist children by providing them education through carefully designed activities. Participation in such activities allows children to develop their potentials and capabilities as there is no set boundaries for children to perform an activity.

Researches all across the globe find that children develop most of the skills in their first six years. During these years, children learn easily and efficiently. In Montessori education, the education is imparted through sensory materials so that children identify the stimuli they encounter. Apart from it, children are provided with the freedom of choice of materials and activities in the classroom.

In Montessori education, social development remains a prominent factor and children are allowed to interact naturally and spontaneously with peers. This way, the children develop excellent communication skills through the exchange of ideas and discussions within their group. It contributes to make them more adaptable that would help them adopt into new environments.

The Montessori program is self- directed and non-competitive that help children developing self-confidence so they can face new challenges effectively. Children also practice the highest moral standards like honesty, love, respect, fairness etc.

Montessori pattern fosters accelerated growth to children by allowing them to explore their potential and imaginations through appropriate classroom environment. Contrary to conventional approach, the Montessori education has contemporary outlook towards children education, understanding them as a growing individual.

The Montessori approach is designed to help children grow by letting them explore the world around them. The classroom is transformed into prepared environment. Rather than teaching skills solely through repetition, hands-on learning is encouraged. Continuous working with scientifically designed material leads the children to master skills. Looking becomes reading; touching becomes writing.

The scientifically designed material play the vital role in conducting the Montessori activities.

Practical Life exercises teach children to care for themselves, for others, and for the environment. They involve a wide variety of activities such as carrying objects, walking, lacing, etc., mainly activities that are done in day to day living. Through practical life exercises, the children learn to refine their movements, become conscious of their body and of what their body can do. These exercises teach the children to complete a task following a step-by-step procedure. This eventually prepares them for the logical tasks that await them in mathematics. These activities are presented in isolation with the aim to help the children focus their attention only a particular task.

Sensorial materials help in refining the senses. They teach children about colour, shape, sound, dimension, texture, weight, volume, temperature and form. The sensorial materials provide the children an opportunity to rediscover their environment in a more precise and organized manner.

Language is not taught to a child. It is something that develops within the child through exposure of listening to people who speak. The Montessori method provides the child with the words in order to help him better express himself, providing him with an environment of speaking people and with the tools for intelligent and correct speech. Using objects familiar to the child facilitates beginning reading. The children are given exercises with reading cards to provide opportunity for practice in reading. As they grow up they are presented with exercises that introduce them to the function of words in a sentence.

The mathematics material helps the children learn and understand abstract mathematical concepts by working with concrete materials. The mathematics material introduces the children to the quantities first and to the symbols 1-10 later. The children are then given the opportunity to relate their knowledge of quantity and symbol with the number rods and cards. The categories of the decimal system (units, tens, hundreds, thousands) and their numerical symbols are presented with the golden bead material along with exercises for the four mathematical operations. Afterwards children are introduced to exercises that help them towards their passage to abstraction in mathematics.

Geography, History, Biology, Botany, Zoology, Art and Music are presented as extensions of the sensorial and language activities. Children learn about other cultures past and present and this allows their innate respect and love for their environment to flourish, creating a sense of solidarity with the global human family and its habitat.