-- Maria Montessori

Our Education for Peace Curriculum is a pragmatic, concrete way to prepare children for peaceful conflict resolution, it helps to create a more nurturing environment with more supportive, interdependent relationships. We have incorporated ideas and activities from the Workbook, Peace Making Skills for Little Kids, Hearthmath techniques, Sonnie McFarland's Peace Mandala, and our collected peace songs, with Montessori's philosophy for peace to create a tool that we can utilize in our classrooms. Our goal is to help make the world a better place and to assist in the evolution of people.

For us to be successful, this curriculum must be presented and maintained by adults who have internalized the Montessori philosophy of peace. These adults must be able to manifest this philosophy through thoughts and actions generated from a place of peace and cooperation.

Maria Montessori believed that it was our function to spiritualize matter and to evolve the nature of people through love, rather than squandering our energy in greed, competition, isolation, fear and war. She believed that it was through the child that this evolution could take place. Therefore, the child's early experiences were of paramount importance in facilitating the process. The Montessori materials,