The Grove School’s mission is to provide a unique learning environment consistent with Dr. Maria Montessori’s vision for secondary age students. Students will be encouraged to reach their full potentials as self-directed individuals within the framework of a Montessori educational system. More… A Montessori Approach to Young Adulthood Grove provides an intelligent and positive approach to learning by creating an effective learning environment for 12-18 year olds. The social conditions of our day “fail to protect the principal energy on which the future depends: human energy, the power of the individual personality” (Maria Montessori). The Grove School seeks to address this lack with a program that promotes independence and the construction of the authentic self.