Children enter the world gifted by nature. With the adult's help in preparing an environment conducive to the child's development, the child can carry out the important task of constructing his personality. This was the great discovery that Maria Montessori made: that the child creates himself, revealing the person that he can become. That is the primary task of the child. The universality of her discovery of the child has been proved over 85 years throughout the world, with children in all cultural, social, physical and psychological conditions. Montessori describes education as an aid to life, as a means of supporting and nurturing the continual unfolding of each child's personality. Based on careful, systematic observation of children and their needs and interests at each level of development, the Montessori approach to early childhood education recognizes the tremendous developmental achievements of each child.

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