About Élan Vital
Our focus is on critical thinking skills, independent research, and in-depth study
of subjects including advanced math and geometry, language, botany, zoology, animal care, geography, fine arts, dramatic arts, music, history, and entrepreneurship.
Parents are encouraged to feel comfortable visiting, contributing, and sharing their talents with the children and the school as a whole.
“The Montessori experience at an early age prepares children at a later age to be able to isolate, classify, discriminate, analyze and use critical thinking sills. It is a basis for creative learning and intellectual curiosity….” -Dr. Rebecca Cramer
“Schools can teach students how to learn. Parents teach students how to work.” -Dr. Mel Levine
“I believe that every child has hidden away somewhere in his being noble capacities which may be quickened and developed if we go about it in the right way, but we shall never properly develop the higher nature of our little ones while we continue to fill their minds with the so-called basics. Mathematics will never make them loving, nor will accurate knowledge of the size and shape of the world help them to appreciate its beauties. Let us lead them during the first years to find their greatest pleasure in nature. Let them run in the fields, learn about animals and observe real things. Children will educate themselves under the right conditions. They require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." -Helen Keller, inspired by Montessori
of subjects including advanced math and geometry, language, botany, zoology, animal care, geography, fine arts, dramatic arts, music, history, and entrepreneurship.
Parents are encouraged to feel comfortable visiting, contributing, and sharing their talents with the children and the school as a whole.
“The Montessori experience at an early age prepares children at a later age to be able to isolate, classify, discriminate, analyze and use critical thinking sills. It is a basis for creative learning and intellectual curiosity….” -Dr. Rebecca Cramer
“Schools can teach students how to learn. Parents teach students how to work.” -Dr. Mel Levine
“I believe that every child has hidden away somewhere in his being noble capacities which may be quickened and developed if we go about it in the right way, but we shall never properly develop the higher nature of our little ones while we continue to fill their minds with the so-called basics. Mathematics will never make them loving, nor will accurate knowledge of the size and shape of the world help them to appreciate its beauties. Let us lead them during the first years to find their greatest pleasure in nature. Let them run in the fields, learn about animals and observe real things. Children will educate themselves under the right conditions. They require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." -Helen Keller, inspired by Montessori
