It has been proven that a correct and valid educational program can be based on a theoretical framework with accepted, scientific foundations (Lunenburg, 2000). This is the theory you rely on when preparing your educational method and content (curriculum), ensuring that you know what you are doing and why you are doing it. Otherwise, the method and content you offer will be incompatible with the child’s development, which not only fails to meet and satisfy the child's needs but also stunts their development and leads to the squandering of the most critical periods in human life.

For this reason, an educational institution must, above all else, have an educational philosophy, and build its theory and methodology upon that philosophy.

The Montessori Philosophy is an educational approach that goes far beyond the classroom materials, the teacher delivering the lessons, and the students who listen with absolute obedience. It takes a special view of the child, in that it does not see the child as an incomplete individual to be shaped according to adult expectations as previous educational methods have. It does not expect the child to be a miniature version of an adult. Instead, it understands the child’s unique nature and continues to serve as a guide who removes the obstacles in the child’s path to growth and development while granting them freedom.

Unlike all other educational methods, only the Montessori Method emphasizes that the child should be respected. The adult does not stand before the child as an expert who makes the final decision. While the adult creates a physical and emotional environment that can meet the child's developmental needs, the child learns at their own pace, in the way they learn best, and takes responsibility for their own learning process. Perhaps most importantly, as individuals who have discovered their own way of learning, Montessori children view the world differently from others; they love learning for the sheer pleasure of it and take joy in working and studying.

There is no other educational philosophy that makes a child feel that work and learning are sources of happiness and that is so aligned with their nature. It is for this reason that children raised with the Montessori philosophy begin life at a considerable advantage over others, because having work and learning as a source of happiness adds a unique, enduring meaning to life.