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[quote=Anonymous]I second the PP.  I would love to hear insights on how Montessori schools encourage creativity and which schools specifically around here are good at this.  I have visited several Montessori schools in regard to my sons and have been very concerned by the approach to creativity.  I specifically asked one teacher, saying I was concerned that my son would look at the Montessori materials and want to use them "to build a fire engine."  The teacher bit my head off, telling me that I needed to nip that tendency in the bud TODAY.  She told me that "parents think creativity is so cute" and nothing but awful things come of it because that child will never be able to distinguish fact from fiction and will never be able to focus.  This teacher was probably a nut job but I think she was stating in a rather extreme way what the current Montessori wisdom really is.  The fact is, all the child development research that we have now supports the importance and validity of imagination and fictitious play.  Even Maria the Great said you should observe how a child chooses to use a particular item and follow that.  I would love to hear how requiring a child to use an item only in the particular prescribed way is a good thing.[/quote]

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