The NAME MONTESSORI PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE is derived from Maria Montessori of Italy who was the first Italian woman physician famous in developing educational materials and methods based on her belief that children learn best by doing, not by positively accepting other people's ideas and prexisting knowledge. this was considered to be an innovative concept.Also, this idea of learning used to promote active personal pursuit of many different experiences:Physical, social, emotional, and cognitive. With these materials Montessori devised an environment in which such learning could be created.And thus, she opened her first school in 1907. Since then, Montessori schools spread throughtout Europe, Canada, United States of America, Australia and Asia, also in the Philippines. The President and its founder; Danilo Magsino Dy, founder of Montessori Professional College has quite a number of accomplishments in his life- as a businessman, as a politician, as a philosopher and most of all, as an educator. His great love and concern is education, which leads him towards community assistance to the youth, most especially to the least privileged members of society. The founder reflected and inspired by the idea of opening a school patterned to the Montessori Schools in the United States of America has established the Montessori Professional College in 1997. this aspiration to open up a school became a reality in 1997 when MONTESSORI PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE , Espana was opened and was given a government permit to operate during the School Year 1997-1998 , initially offering Two-Year Associate Courses in Computer Science: Pffice Management and Hotel and Restaurant Management. A semester after, that same year, another branch was opened in Caloocan City. Enlivened by its Mission Statement, Montessori Professional offered four-year courses in Bachelor of Science inTourism, Business Administration, Computer Science, Office Management and Hotel and Restaurant Management in 1998 and established branches in the cities of Manila, Caloocan, Quezon, Antipolo and Meycauayan, Bulacan.