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• ↓ A joint celebration hosted by AMI/USA, Montessori México, AMI Canada, AMI-EAA, and NAMTA to view “Montessori: Education for Peace”
• ↓ Help NAMTA Co-Create Our Future
• ↓ Fostering Civility and Collaboration
• ↓ Reflections on Grace and Courtesy
• ↓ 2025: NAMTA Turns 50 This Year
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"In the spirit and honor of International Peace Day, we share these words from E. Mortimer Standing from an article, “Maria Montessori: World Peace through the Child”."

". . . We are on the eve of a new conception of education. It will not come at once, because new ideas take time to percolate into the general mind. But the time is inevitably coming when, in the light of these discoveries about childhood on the one hand, and under the urgency of preserving world peace on the other, we shall be obliged to broaden our aims and practices in education almost beyond recognition. We shall no longer think of education in terms of preparing individuals to take their own part successfully in the struggle for existence in adult society. It will no longer be largely a question of preparing Tommy to be a banker and Edith a nurse. It will be seen as the problem of how best to protect the “normal” growth of the whole human species so as to ensure “valorization of personality” (Standing, 1957) at every stage of development. This, as we shall see later, cannot be attained without the fullest development of the social instincts. We must see to it that each individual will grow up realizing his responsibility to humanity as a whole. The importance of this moral and social development will be seen to be a matter so urgent for the attainment of world peace that there will come a collective urge on the part of mankind to see that the means are provided through which the constructive energies in childhood and adolescence can be made operative. Excerpt from The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 20, No. 3 • Summer 1995"

"50 years ago, December 1975, five teachers came together to create the North American Montessori Teachers’ Association."

"Now, 50 years later, NAMTA’s board of directors is examining our history. With the assistance of Montessorians across the US, we hope to co-create the future of our organization. The purposes for which NAMTA was organized remain our constant guiding light:"

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A joint celebration hosted by AMI/USA, Montessori México, AMI Canada, AMI-EAA, and NAMTA to view “Montessori: Education for Peace”

Help NAMTA Co-Create Our Future

Fostering Civility and Collaboration

Reflections on Grace and Courtesy

2025: NAMTA Turns 50 This Year