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of permissiveness has existed and undergone change, the age of Sputnik re-emphasized the need for acquiring good, basic intellectual skills, and widespread pollution of the environment has increased man’s awareness of his need to learn to live in balance and harmony with nature. Montessori’s philosophy of child growth and her rationale for guiding such growth has survived all these changes and remains today as one of the few “i otal ’' concepts for early childhood education.
Monlessori’s concept of early childhood education is based on the following premises:
1. that the developing child needs freedom within limits.
2 that he needs a carefully prepared environment which guarantees exposure to materials and experiences through which intellectual, psychological, physical and social capacities are developed
3. that children are to be respected as different from adults, and as individuals who differ from each other.
4. that the most important years of growth are the first six years of life when unconscious learning is gradually brought to the conscious level.
5. that the child possesses unusual sensitivity and mental powers for absorbing and learning from his environment, and iha' he must be free to actively engage himself with the environment if learning is to take place
6. the Montessori materials are designed to take advantage of the self-motivation and unique ability of young children to develop their own capabilities through purposeful work or play. Smokey Say a:
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