Bring the world to your child. Give her Montessori.
Our learning community fosters a spirit of cooperation, compassion, and self-discipline.
Our Mission
The Urban Montessori Institute of St. Louis was founded to promote affordable educational opportunities to optimize the natural development of children. With a profound desire to honor their unfolding intelligence and compassionate spirits, our school exists to prepare the children for a world of challenge and change, using the timeless wisdom of Dr. Maria Montessori. We believe the well-rounded children and adults we influence will change the world.
Every donation supports our efforts to provide a hands-on, child-centered education that fosters independence, creativity, and a love for learning. Your gift makes a real difference!
Our Vision
Every child deserves the opportunity to grow up in an environment that is deeply respectful of his/her unique spirit. At Forest Park Montessori, we hope to reach as many children as possible with this 100-year-old method and philosophy of teaching. In the Montessori environment, which consists not only of many specially designed learning materials but also the prepared adult guides (teachers), the child has all the “tools” needed to develop intellectually, socially, physically and spiritually. Regular, frequent communication and cooperation between home and school serves to enhance the loving home parents work hard to create for their children. We also understand the importance of reaching out to the wider world to help them understand how a Montessori program can lay the foundations on which a more peaceful world can be built.
Our Inspiration
"Every child contains a seed of perfection that fully blooms in an environment created for the purpose. The Montessori classroom is indeed such a world. Geared to the size, pace, and interests of children, it offers each child great, important, and profoundly satisfying work. Every classroom is meticulously prepared with experiences that challenge and fulfill each child as they move from one level of complexity to another. Montessori teachers are profound observers and recorders, trained to recognize each period of growth, need, and readiness. The result is an independent, and balanced human being whose love of learning knows no bounds."
Mary Zeman
