Bright Oasis Nursery

tics that Montesori described the passing from one plane to the next as a 'rebirth', as if we have a new child at each new plane who will require a different environment. Montessori called the first plane of development from zero to zix years infancy, that from six to twelve Childhood, from twelve to eighteen Adolescence and the final plane from eighteen to twenty-four Maturity. Many psychologists have described these six different planes but is only Montessori who has given a way to respond to this knowledge as a means of education and in this way she has redefined education as an 'aid to life' saying that if we support the natural development of the child at each plane then we will optimise development for the whole human being. There is a particular time in the chil's life when he is most able to take a particular developmental step. These opportunities must be grasped because when they are missed the development that can take place later will never be as complete as if it had the right moment.