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[quote=Anonymous]Also, regarding "not using things in unintended ways," it is possible Montessoris may vary, but I have literally never seen a teacher at my son's school stop a student from exploring materials in a new way.

It is true that all of the materials are designed to be self-corrective. That is, they won't look quite right when you're done unless you've done them in the way the curriculum intends. It is also the case that you're not "done" with the work until you've completed a particular set of acts. So, for example, you might need to stack a set of blocks from largest to smallest to complete the block tower, and a teacher wouldn't tell you its "done" until you've done that. But I've literally never seen a teacher come over and tell a student who is building a castle out of the blocks or intentionally trying to stack the blocks from smallest to largest that he is doing it wrong and needs to stop. The whole point of the self-corrective materials is that the students are supposed to figure it out on their own through exploration.[/quote]

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