Our method of education was developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. One of the first women to earn a medical doctorate in Italy, Dr. Montessori refined her method through scientific observation of children.

When a classroom was organized with excellent materials, she noticed that:

• Children freely engage in deep concentration, problem solving, and practice;

• Teachers observe and serve as guides, introducing children to challenging new material when they are ready;

• Children of different ages work together and help each other;

• Long, uninterrupted periods of time foster concentration.

Since her first school opened for children with special needs in a poor neighborhood of Rome in 1907, her method has expanded to serve all kinds of children in thousands of programs across the world.

As public schools in the US have become much more standardized, Montessori is more prevalent in private schools. We started Libertas so that the “best for the smallest” would be available as a free public school here in Frayser.