What is the Montessori Method and why is it the best for your preschooler ?

The basic premise on which the Montessori Method for preschool is predicated is that human beings are naturally curious, and therefore, children should be educated as per their natural phases of development, and the best of what actually works in terms of education.

"The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the period from birth to the age of six...
for that is the time when intelligence itself, her greatest implement, is being formed."
~Maria Montessori