Hawthorne Montessori School ( HMS ) is an independent, American Montessori Society Initiate Member school located in Austin, Texas. HMS offers exceptional Montessori education for infants through age 6. HMS has created a beautiful, nurturing environment for children and committed parents eager to cultivate their childrens learning and sense And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teachers task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child. Dr. Maria Montessori Hawthorne Montessori School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, nationality or ethnic origin with regard to hiring, admissions or in the administration of any of its programs.