Welcome to Countryside Montessori School's new web site!
I hope that you enjoy our site and let it open the door to the exceptional world of Montessori education and all that it has to offer you and your child.
Montessori has played a significant role in my life as an educator. From the moment that I
set foot in a Montessori classroom in 1991, there was no question as to the educational path that I
was taking. Montessori has helped me to grow as an individual and to see children in a light that I never
thought possible.
I look forward to assisting you in any way possible in the decision of the education
of your child.
Sharon Fitoussi
Director
"The discovery that the child has a mind able to absorb on its own account produces
a revolution in education. We can now understand easily why the first period in human development, in
which character is formed, is the most important. At no other age has the child greater need of an
intelligent help...
We should help the child, therefore, no longer because we think of him as a creature,
puny and weak, but because he is endowed with great creative energies...
When...we realize that the
mind of the child in infancy is different from ours, that we cannot reach it by verbal instruction, nor
intervene directly in the process of its passing from the unconscious to the conscious...Then the whole
concept of education changes... This is the new path on which education has been put..."
Maria Montessori
The Absorbent Mind
