The Farm School curriculum design allows the valuation of the economic work of the student. This valuation of his work and produce ushers your child to the gateways of the adult’s socio-economic world.

When he sells, or buys with the money he earns, it introduces him to a larger society of other producers and consumers.

The concept of money becomes real to him. He comes to grips with its power and his moral responsibilities to handle his money. He actualizes his self-sufficiency.

“The very foundation of social
morality is bound up with money…
Among other laws the child is learning now, there is something grand to be grasped here, to realize that
this is the most important fact in the organization of society and in social morality.”

- Dr. Maria Montessori

Beyond learning how to earn, it is learning how to spend. Beyond learning how to make profit from the vegetable garden enterprise, it is learning how to make profit honorably.

Montessori believes the farm setting provides the grounds to explore and influence this morality. In its most passive state, the farm defines and teaches the simplest essentials of living -- needs and wants are easily distinguishable.