We abandon all and travel the world, as did those in former times who would sow seeds and go their way. This is our destiny: to sow! To sow everywhere, without ceasing, never to harvest.

I live in heaven.
My home is a sphere that travels around the sun.
It is called Earth.
— Maria Montessori, MD

Michael Olaf's Children's Projects

INDIA - Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV)

THAILAND - Thailand Montessori Project

TIBET - The Blind School

NEPAL - Sree Mangal Dvip Boarding School for Himalayan Children
SMD CHILDREN- new website created by the children of this school, with a little help from Susan

BHUTAN - Montessori just beginning

CHINA - Montessori 0-3 overview, The Joyful Child, now in Chinese

ALBANIA - Information and pictures will be posted this spring. Susan was in the caplital, Tirana, in February to give the first Montessori lecture to the public, and celebrate the opening of the first Montessori school.

Return to the Michael Olaf home page: www.michaelolaf.net

To read some of Susan Stephenson's art and emails home from these trips, go to: Art & Emails Home

Notes from the Field

Susan Stephenson is the author of the Michael Olaf Montessori overviews. Some of her Montessori-related experiences over the years were presented at the AMI Centenary Celebration in San Francisco in February, 2007. These PDF files contain an abbreviated version of that PowerPoint presentation.

"Notes" Part 1 1964-2003, India (Mumbai); London; Lima, Peru; California; Japan; India (Dharamsala, Tibetan children's village); Nepal, Tibet; Australia; Nepal; Thailand (PDF)
"Notes" Part 2 2006, Nepal; Thailand; Bhutan (PDF)

Also at the celebration in San Francisco the following information about Montessori around the world was shared with the EsF group: A presentation of the website "Montessori Around the World," This is a collection of International Montessori projects by Jules Layman, a member of EsF: Montessori Around the World

For information about Educateurs sans Frontieres, or educators without borders, please go to the AMI - Association Montessori Internationale website and click on EsF link.

If the above two files are two large, here is an older version of the talk, uncorrected, in 4 files:

Part 1 (3 pages) 1964-2003, India, London, Lima, California, Japan, India (Tibetan children's village), Nepal, Tibet
Part 2 (2 pages) 2005, Australia, India, Nepal, Thailand, Nepal
Part 3 (2 pages) 2006, Nepal, Thailand, Bhutan
Part 4 (2 pages) 2006, Bhutan