The Montessori six to nine classroom teaches dates and events but more importantly, it allows for children to understand human nature better by learning about people all over the world and their responses to their environment. This enables the child to decide if he wants to react in the same way he sees the adults around him respond (or react differently) in order to bring about a more positive outcome based on past events. So, the Montessori child’s perspective will be varied (certainly it could differ tremendously from the adults around him) and hopefully this makes him less opinionated, as he is making his judgement based on facts that he has gleaned from studying his world and the people within it.
Montessori children will help to eventually bring about the world peace that Maria Montessori yearned for and felt it was possible to achieve. She said, “We cannot achieve world harmony simply by attempting to unite all these adult people who are so different, but we can achieve it as we begin with the child who is not born with prejudices.”
