In the following, some of Montessori’s basic educational ideas in relation to current perspectives can be looked up:

• Learning today has to be individualised learning
• Education today has to encourage young people to decide for themselves and to commit themselves
• Learning today needs to stimulate intrinsic motivation
• Individualised learning has to be related to social education and integration
• Learning today has to include all the senses and freedom of action
• Education today has to allow for the experience of silence
• Learning and education today have to be connected with a greater opening up of schools